Word: optionally
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...part of the purchase, Harvard has agreed to give an option to Boston University (BU) to buy a ten-acre portion of the land. The parcel is located south of Cambridge Street, cutting it off from the rest Harvard's purchase...
...funds in the account, however, are handled by the plan, not you. Some parents may eschew this cookie-cutter approach to investing. "The downside is, once the money is in the option you choose, it stays there," says Joseph Hurley, a C.P.A. in Pittsford, N.Y., and author of The Best Way to Save for College. Many plans use an age-allocation formula, investing more conservatively as a child gets older. But now that financial-services companies are helping manage these plans, the offerings can be much broader, Hurley says...
...guess is that Bush will try to work both options (riding his high horse while he takes the low road, so to speak), but will find, as the weeks pass, that Option 1 does not entirely work - close-quarters policy wonking is not the kind of thing that W.'s good at. Then he will put his money on Option 2 - slashing negatives...
...single motherhood. With better-paying jobs and greater career opportunities, more women can afford it. Advances in the technology of conception, such as in-vitro fertilization, have made it much more feasible, even in the later childbearing years. Meanwhile, adoption by single mothers has become a more accepted option...
...Carrie asks. "Would Snow White have slept in that glass coffin forever? Or would she have eventually woken up, spit out the apple, got a job, a health-care package and a baby from her local neighborhood sperm bank?" Maybe. But this year our heroines are considering another option: settling down with Prince Almost-as-Charming. (All but Samantha--the deliciously vulpine Kim Cattrall--who episode after bed-hopping episode takes Manhattan like, well...