Word: optional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This "quick fix" option has some attractive features. In one fell swoop Harvard acquires a high-profile woman or minority professor who will take a conspicuous place in the elite senior faculty...
...like to present women with all of the options--carrying the pregnancy, abortion and adoption," Bisby added. "We feel that abortion is an option that affects the women as well as the fetus. It's an end to life, but we don't use any terms like murder or kill [because] we feel that would be harrassment...
...said publicly which option heprefers...
...Vietnamese think they know why. A joke is making the rounds in Hanoi: Viet Nam has done everything it can to lure the Americans to open an embassy there, and nothing has worked; the only option left is to declare war on the U.S., then immediately surrender and count on the beneficence that Americans show those they have defeated...
Nonetheless, the new findings have intensified debate about whether diuretics should remain a first-line option for treating high blood pressure. Many doctors support continued widespread use, arguing that newer, alternative drugs are more expensive and that their long-term side effects have not been as well established. But others are pressing for more restricted use of water pills. At the least, say some, patients who have diabetes probably should not be taking diuretics...