Word: options
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Construction costs for the delta-wing plane have soared. Without a single sale-and only 74 options now taken -the two countries are spending an estimated $1.4 billion on its development against the original 1962 estimate of $450 million. It is expected that another $500 million will be needed to fill the option orders, and a total of 200 must be sold to recoup a mere one-third of the development costs...
Enter Beatty, who had heard about the script in a Paris conversation with Truffaut. Beatty found Benton and Newman in New York City, liked their work enough to wait out the original producers' option, then bought the property for $75,000, intending to produce as well as direct under a contract with Warner Bros. Sister Shirley was to star as Bonnie. Eventually, he decided that he ought to play Clyde, which meant that Shirley had to go; after all, the picture featured more than enough gore and transgressions without seeming to add incest to injury...
...Marine recruiter told me they were offering an option to the draft--enlistment," said Margolis. "This is exactly what we propose to do--offer alternatives to the draft...
James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, used the same argument to support instituting the pass-fail option. The proposal has "great symbolic significance," he said, because it was initiated by students, and Faculty denial "would show that we don't have much faith in them--that we think they would use the added freedom to loaf...
...Students may use this option to satisfy concentration requirements with the permission of the Department or Committee concerned--and General Education requirements with the permission of the Committee on General General Education...