Word: opts
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...schools have tried to opt out of the list. When Reed College stopped complying in 1995, the magazine assigned the lowest possible value to the missing statistics; in one year, Reed fell from the second quartile to the fourth. (Since then, the iconoclastic school has suffered no shortage of qualified applicants.) U.S. News now plugs in whatever data it can find for nonparticipants. "They won't let you quit," Drew president Weisbuch says of the magazine's data collectors. "I would spell...
...struggling middle class will be listening, for they are facing the following choice: trust the government to help them get ahead, or try “The Secret”? For better or worse, candidates will have to acknowledge that there is a strong tradition in America to opt for the latter...
...lately focused on prime-time blood: power-tool torture on 24, serial killing on Criminal Minds, vivisection on Heroes. And the FCC has prepared a draft report suggesting that Congress authorize it to regulate broadcast violence, as it now does obscenity, and possibly force cable companies to let subscribers opt out of paying for channels that run brutal content...
...command top yen on TV, but good luck jetting to Madrid on your off days when you make less than $11,000 a year, as 34% of male and 55% of female part-timers do. And even putting salary concerns aside, many of those part-timers would still opt for full-time employment if they could. Despite the damage it sustained during the lost decade of the 1990s, the ideal of the company as family among Japanese is still strong - leaving part-timers as veritable orphans. Even Haken - which appears subversive at first, with a protagonist who would rather have...
...suburban Sydney. Did anyone really believe Labor's new prima ballerina would be wasted as a strategic operative in Rudd's huddle? The gregarious McKew will be a hit with voters, especially those who swing between Labor and the Greens. Perhaps those dwelling in cement-rendered Putney mansions will opt for the well-heeled woman from Mosman instead of the man from Kirribilli who invites Dick Cheney over for a beer. Every now and then during the campaign, Howard will wonder if the best thing he could have done for himself and the Liberal Party was to hand over...