Word: options
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Thinking it through, I caught sight of students dressed to kill as summer recruiting interviews peaked. The successful ones would pull down 100-hour weeks spent I-banking in New York; I dismissed the option as materialistic and very far removed from the goals that motivated my decision to pursue medicine...
Which brings us to the third big scenario. This is the diversity option, arising from the realization that the one-size-fits-all model of marriage may have been one of the biggest sources of tension between the sexes all along--based as it is on the wildly unrealistic expectation that a single spouse can meet one's needs for a lover, friend, co-parent, financial partner, reliably, 24-7. Instead there will be renewable marriages, which get re-evaluated every five to seven years, after which they can be revised, recelebrated or dissolved with no, or at least fewer...
...daily frustrations of married life, even if they don't have a marriage license. In Vermont the state supreme court has already ruled that the state must start providing the same benefits to all couples, gay and straight, except the title of marriage itself. Vermont legislators now have the option of granting same-sex couples the M word too. If they do--and it doesn't seem likely--they will ignite a federal case over whether other states have to honor Vermont's licenses. (Congress has said states can ignore others' gay marriages, but that law hasn't been tested...
...through a variety of pipelines all owned by one of four Great Big Media Companies. These are all exactly alike in their collection of assets, each of them owning broadcast, narrowcast, die-cast, retrocast and cybercast, broadband, narrowband, audio, video, satellite and an upload-and-download phalanx of option-driven interfaces. Each of our Great Big Media Companies has thousands of brands that make us feel all warm and toasty and provide an emotional connection to a past that nobody can actually remember. We love our GBMCs and buy their stocks all the time...
...plan was crafted after extensive student surveys last year showed that undergraduates wanted a meal option after the end of dinner at 7:30 p.m. The snacks will be set out at the end of dinner and collected the following morning--allow students the option of munching all night long...