Word: options
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full of tricks. Crouched behind his center, he kept Army off balance with continuous long counts while he twisted his head and acted as if he were casually counting the house. Then a quick switch to a quick snap would send him scampering around end on a run-pass option play. Sometimes he flubbed passes when the wet ball skidded off his fingers, but always, when he needed help, he had the most devastating weapon on the field: Navy's rapid little (5 ft. 10 in., 176 Ibs.) captain. Ned Oldham, a marvelous mudder from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio...
...seems a much greater injustice, however, to deprive them of all the benefits of the College. The Administration feels that it can adequately educate 1100 freshmen, although there are only 975 resident places. At present, students who do not qualify for unconditional admission are given the option of living outside or of rejecting the Harvard education which is offered them...
Felt said that when a game is being played on University property the book functions as an undergraduate pass. When the contest takes place in a non-University facility, such as the Boston Arena, the book serves as an option to buy regular seats at a reduced price...
...book's end, the war is over for the Mazalaigues: badly wounded Pierre is back home; ambitious Amelie has taken an option on an even bigger cafe in Montmartre. Their daughter is growing into a beauty, and Author Troyat has enough sympathetic characters to carry him through at least a dozen more novels. Troyat, in this volume, is writing of Frenchmen who were still supremely confident of the future; reading it is a little like watching an unsuspecting man walk into a pleasant field sown with land mines...
...American Express cash in on the potentially rich market for foreign-car rentals, but the deal also calls for it to invest in Hertz Corp. so that it can participate in domestic profits. Express is buying 25,000 Hertz Corp. common shares at the current market price, has an option to buy 75,000 more over the next four years for no less than 42-7/8 or no more than 60g each. Says American Express President Ralph Reed; "The thing that attracted us was Hertz's dramatic growth. Those people are aggressive, and they are moving fast...