Word: options
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the civilians and sailors, the soldiers will have no option as to when and where they will take calisthenics, but will be assigned by the Army to the various classes. Some of the men will drill in Army fatigue clothes, while the majority will be permitted to wear any gym outfit they choose...
...Religious instruction in state schools with parental option to withdraw children from religious classes...
...That chains can no longer require affiliated stations to give them "exclusive option time." In theory this puts an end to the networks' power to keep for themselves the most desirable hours on their affiliated stations...
...year were over $4,000,000, Sears prudently carried the Britannica on its books at $1). Result: Bill Benton himself agreed to put up whatever might be needed to keep it going, took an unnamed percentage of the stock from U.C. to back his investment. The university has an option to buy his stock (for the sum he put into it-plus no interest) if the going is good, a further option on the whole works at 42-year-old Bill Benton's death. Meanwhile Benton will devote at least part of his ample talents to making the university...
This deal won her the title "Chrome Queen," convinced her that the chrome world was at her feet. So she spent her time nailing down an option on huge Alaskan chrome deposits, running up $700-monthly telephone bills, nightclubbing. Then she stormed Washington, surprised everybody but herself by landing the biggest chromite contract ever: $846,000 for 25,000 tons. Then came trouble. The Alaskan mine was under 30 feet of snow, could be mined only at terrific cost. Dot flopped on her contract, got back to her California mines with only $11 in her worn purse...