Word: optional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second time around, Harvard ran an option play to the left, and quarterback Tim Perry pitched out to the trailing running back. Bianchi snuck between the two, intercepted the pitchout and found only open green grass on the other side of the field...
...Europe doesn't have the option of becoming a fortress because of its dependence on trade," Sutherland said. "If it does, it will be the result of U.S. protectionism rather than the other way around...
...always engaged in a losing struggle with slowly metastasizing despair. Since Jack and Frank Baker (Jeff and Beau Bridges) are approaching middle age and still playing duo cocktail piano in Seattle's lesser lounges, an air of hopelessness has begun to hang heavy. Stardom is no longer an option; survival, even on the bottom rung, is becoming a question...
...Moscow continues to govern Nagorno-Karabakh. "There would be a war ((with the Soviet Union))," says Huseynov with a shrug. "But we think Iran and Turkey would help us." Moscow would presumably have something of its own to say about any attempt by Baku to exercise such an option. But so far, Moscow has managed only to alienate both sides in the bitter feud. That is hardly a claim to success -- or authority...
...When the option of outbidding other customers is foreclosed, rich customers turn to "phantom markets" to get their hands on an apartment. This may take the form of legwork, finder's fees, inside knowledge of an available rentstabilized apartment, or even bribing the landlord...