Word: optioned
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...four Mississippi counties have rejected the floating crap tables and roulette wheels; three have approved them. State law gives each county its own option on whether to permit gambling, just as it does with alcohol. In fact, gaming has been readily available to Mississippians for years. Boats offering "dinner cruises" regularly leave Gulfport and Biloxi bound for international waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The slots and dice usually roll long before the boats reach the 12-mile limit...
Saddam could also press his assertion that for historical reasons, Kuwait belongs to Iraq. However, he must know that this flimsy claim will not stand up under international law. Thus Baghdad would have little incentive for resorting to this option...
...Link Link. This option might be combined with one of the first two or alone might prove sufficient incentive for Saddam to retreat. In this scenario, Saddam would pull out of Kuwait reasonably confident, if not certain, that relatively soon afterward the U.S. and the Soviet Union would convene an international peace conference that would deal with the plight of the Palestinians, whose cause Saddam has trumpeted lately...
...third option is the honor system, which, in essence, we use already. We currently have all the disadvantages of an honor system (stolen books) and none of the advantages (feeling of trust between administration and students, money saved that we now pay to useless checkers...
Conservatives are speaking more openly about the "nuclear option," and it has nothing to do with the gulf crisis. That's the code phrase true believers have given nascent plans to mount a right-wing challenge to George Bush in 1992. The main purpose of such a kamikaze mission would be to force Bush to return to the fold on taxes. Activists, including American Conservative Union chief David Keene and former Reagan Administration official Don Devine, have convened several times in secret to plot strategy. Two groups met last weekend, one in Dallas and another in suburban Maryland, and talk...