Word: options
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Utah is one of the nation's biggest uranium-oxide suppliers to the Atomic Energy Commission, operates Lucky Me mine in Wyoming. The company has a contract with the Navajo tribal council giving it an option to strip-mine rich coal deposits on the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico. More recently, Utah obtained options on valuable copper deposits on Vancouver Island, British Columbia...
...Western Hemisphere." Yet Americans, De Riencourt insists, have been "fundamentally reluctant" imperialists. They have not really played the game of colonialism, which he defines as an ephemeral grab for pseudo empire. The problem is that history has given them no choice. Though there might once have been another option, this century's two world wars destroyed the chance for a united Europe and thrust the U.S. into the power vacuum...
Most companies, obviously, are looking for men of stature. In any case, the danger of dissension in the ranks seldom seems great enough to warrant calling off the search. Executives who find themselves passed over always have the option of switching employers themselves. For companies hurt by such job jumping, there is always consolation in the fact that the practice can cut both ways. A case in point is Chicago-based Bell & Howell, whose executive vice president, William Roberts, left in 1961, to become president of Ampex Corp., taking several colleagues along with him. Casting about for vice presidents earlier...
...extended the offer to buy, as he had the option to do, he surely would have wound up with the full 2,000,000 shares. Instead, Hughes chose to withdraw his offer. His Hughes Tool Co. cited ABC management's "inordinate opposition" as the cause for giving up. More likely, the main reason was a very personal one-reclusive Howard Hughes's reluctance to show himself in public. Back in 1963, he gave up his right to manage TWA rather than make a court appearance. Now, at ABC's request, the Federal Communications Commission scheduled hearings...
Strictly speaking, the option in most of these cases is to enter into the fun-or leave it alone. But several of the objects have been so intricately put together that they offer the viewers some real variants to work with. Oyvind Fahlstrom sets up panels dotted with comic-strip and newsclip images mounted on magnetized blocks; these can be moved around at will. The result, Fahlstrom suggests, is to produce the "elusive-mysterious quality of a never-fixed work of art." Gerald Oster's Instant Self-Skiagraphy permits the viewer-participant to make shadow pictures with his hand...