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Word: opts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purchases for services any different, any less related to the tasks of the University? I believe you malign the moral seriousness of the problem faced by these textile workers. Very much to the point, Harvard's decision to allow students to opt out of paying for UHS abortions represents an institutional decision that this issue was serious enough to be put before the Harvard community. At the very least this approach should be pursued with the Stevens issue...

Author: By Andrew J. Kahn, | Title: Upholding Consumer Sovereignty | 5/25/1979 | See Source »

Some families thus choose not to have children at all. Others, hoping that the baby will be a girl, go ahead with a pregnancy. But once they learn through amniocentesis that the fetus is male, they will opt for an abortion. Even though there is a fifty-fifty chance that the boy will not be a hemophiliac, medicine has had no way of telling whether those odds would be in the parents' favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Improved Odds | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...meet it's emergency manpower requirements, a December 1978 letter from Selective Service officials to members of the House Armed Services Committee reveals. Some say this $2.5 billion figure is far below what it would cost to track down, investigate and prosecute the thousands of young people who would opt for a five-year prison sentence in the face of compulsory service. Even staunch militarists like Stennis say they will support more appropriations for AVF if they can achieve the desired result. Perhaps the Congress should spend more of its time making the volunteer services more attractive and streamlining...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Uncle John Wants You | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

True, even bad Shakespeare outdistances most of the pack, and Two Gentlemen could work onstage given sensitive direction and excellent acting. But most companies wisely steer clear of this play and opt for better known and better loved works that can carry their own weight. A performance of Two Gentlemen, in its original form (a musical version was produced here two years ago), is a justifiably rare bird...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Bad Bard in Boston | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...machine mayor suggests a return to the feudal, pre-Daley years when free-wheeling bosses ran wild, getting their hands into more cookie jars than modern-day Chicagoans can imagine even exist. Some of the more wily power-brokers might ally with Byrne and try to co-opt her. In any case, the people of Chicago will face four years of back-stabbing and bickering while this Dragon Lady of the Midwest, her beloved Boss peering down from his City Hall in the sky, grapples gracelessly with the many problems he left...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Chicago's Dragon Lady | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

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