Word: options
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...policy differences. Both advocate tough budget cutting and tight foreign currency control to fight Israel's punishing triple-digit inflation. On matters of foreign policy, both want to maintain close relations with the U.S. and honor the Camp David agreements. Rabin and Peres subscribe to the "Jordanian" option, under which most of the occupied West Bank would revert to joint Jordanian-Palestinian control...
Students who wanted to study literature in the past have had a circumscribed set of choices: the Comparative Literature department offered them no undergraduate concentration, so they could squeeze into the English Department's honors option II--with all of that department's labyrinthine requirements--or try to tailor their own program in some other language-oriented department or interdisciplinary committee...
...automakers' hopes for a sales surge have been dashed against the rocks of high sticker prices and staggering interest rates. Only five years ago, $5,000 would have bought an option-packed Oldsmobile or Buick station wagon. Today, that amount is barely enough to pay for a stripped-down two-door Chevette. The same Buick wagon would cost nearly $11,000. The Big Three have been forced to hike the price of their fuel-efficient models mostly to pay for the $80 billion that they are spending to design and produce them. But Detroit may have pushed prices...
Until now, students who wanted to study literature had to do so in a restricted or hybrid form by majoring in one of the foreign language departments, the English Department's honors option II, or History and Literature. Comparative Literature remained a discipline reserved for graduate students...
Miller returns to Boston after three solid seasons in California. The 32-year-old played out his option and left the Red Sox following the 1977 season. He is considered one of the best-fielding outfielders in baseball. Clear, 24, posted an 11-11 record and 3.30 earned run average...