noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a realistic option/alternative
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We do not believe there is any realistic alternative.
a viable option
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Moving the company was not a viable option.
call option
canvass...options
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A committee was set up to canvass the city’s educational options .
keep/leave your options open
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Officers investigating her death are keeping their options open.
leave sb with no choice/option (= force someone to take a particular action )
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You leave me with no choice but to fire you.
options...open
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So what other options are open to us?
soft option British English (= a choice that allows you to avoid difficulties or hard work )
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Taking the soft option won’t help your career to develop.
stock option
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
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The unforeseen Sometimes there just is not time to consider all available options .
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I shrink into the shade of a skinny saguaro -- the best available option -- to wait.
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All of the currently available options are explained with examples of the pages as they appear to the user.
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Make sure to compare all the available options .
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On balance, the least inflammatory of the available options were selected.
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These individuals may rightfully perceive that under such conditions, leaving is the only available option .
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The Ingres relational database is no longer bundled, but is available as an option .
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The regulation of insider dealing necessarily involves a complex assessment of the available regulatory options .
easy
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His refusal to take the easy option is admirable.
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And appearing only for the defence has always seemed too easy an option .
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In a situation of this sort ignorance is often the easy option .
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But their other argument is possibly more persuasive: it's that farm saving is not an easy option .
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It is, though, an easy option for simple Web pages.
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Well, he certainly achieved it but remember, winning championships is the easy option .
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Promising extra money, though welcome in itself, is the easy option .
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Trotting is very pleasant, but it's not an easy option .
good
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Natural stone is more difficult and expensive, but the best option if you want to plant into the sides.
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Canned meats and poultry, which can be opened just before eating, are good options .
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It is actively looking for more pilot schemes to identify the greater efficiencies needed and the best options available for waste collection.
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Sit and wait tactics may be your best option here, for a few hours at least.
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I shrink into the shade of a skinny saguaro -- the best available option -- to wait.
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Coastal walking or following our lowland canals are good options for the stalking season.
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Unfortunately, he may still be the best option .
only
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Sometimes despair is the only option .
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It is sometimes quite hard for a person to do the unconventional, but that may be the only safe option .
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The military defeat of Taylor appeared increasingly to be the only option for an end to the conflict.
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The only option to flee south.
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On arrival, getting drunk seemed his only option , the sickening hangover after three days a minimal punishment.
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Where these materials have to be cleaned methylene chloride is the only chemical option once items are soiled.
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Death or surrender became the only options .
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The only other option for cyclists is a busy B road which is unsafe for family cycling.
other
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If this does not occur, then revert to the normal diet and consider other options .
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The other main option is to move into commerce and industry.
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The other option is to have it resident at all times but is activated only when you want a fax converting.
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By jacking up the price of the cheapest disposal route, a landfill tax makes other options look more attractive.
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But if some of our constituents had been offered other options , they would not have chosen residential or nursing care.
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Other variations - Pekinese and Szechwan among them - offer other options like a greater variety of baked and highly-spiced dishes.
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The only other option for cyclists is a busy B road which is unsafe for family cycling.
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Kennedy was understandably wary and disposed to explore other options .
possible
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Mr. Chope Consultants are working on possible route options , and we plan to publish them in the summer of next year.
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Computers tend to play a boring, conservative style that emphasizes their strengths in quickly calculating many possible options .
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The following three examples are used to highlight possible options .
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The possible options have already been summarised by Figure 3.
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The Shop needed a statement on the current position and possible options for action.
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But every so often, such as now, killing does seem the best possible option .
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Job sharing is one possible option to ease the return to work.
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The site was established but its future use was initially vague: a concert hall was one possible option .
soft
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Just one proviso and it is one that everyone in our industry knows ... this business is no soft option .
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And if anyone thinks this is a soft option - try a cliff-top route with a storm blowing.
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Probation should in no sense be seen as a soft option by the judiciary.
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All my life I had chosen the soft options: good times, good company, good fun.
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It argued that these were not soft options but properly applied would be tough penalties which aided the battle to reduce crime.
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So often in my life, where I've made a mistake, it has been by taking the soft option .
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The soft option of imprisonment is not the answer!
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Organisers deny it's a soft option .
stock
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The Black-Scholes model also is widely used for valuing the stock options in the compensation packages of corporate executives.
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The Black-Scholes model is prized because it measures the fair value of stock option contracts.
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They do not have stockholders or stock options for executives.
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These figures do not include stock options .
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Quigley holds 105, 000 unexercised stock options and Dorman holds 50, 000.
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For example, many corporations reward executives with stock options in addition to salary.
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And stock options , for decades reserved to the top 400 executives, now have been opened up far wider.
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Traditional rewards for work are material: promotions with in-creased pay, bonuses, stock options , and generous benefit packages.
various
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The most difficult part will be deciding between the various shipping options .
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Over breakfast the group discussed the various options for the day.
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He also described the various channel tunnel options currently being studied by the Ministry.
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Goldman will present various options to the company within 60 days, he said.
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This sample illustrates how easy it is to create abstract patterns from familiar objects by using the various options available.
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For weeks, the teams have been discussing various options , to no avail.
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Fabio had various options , and nearly took the wrong one.
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There are various options open to an organization in deciding how much to spend on advertising its products.
viable
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Most schools are in such poor physical condition and are so poorly equipped that this is unlikely to be a viable option .
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But a few weeks on the job convinced him that mere maintenance was not, in this instance, a viable option .
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This leaves criminal prosecution as the only viable option .
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This is not a viable option in the long run.
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It would be up to the scientists to decide which is the viable option and which belongs to the realm of science fiction.
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Despite frequent double-teaming, Shaw was still the Bears' most viable receiving option .
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This, it seems, was not a viable option .
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Moving the company was not a viable option .
■ NOUN
call
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Volume in both the call options and Loral stock was unusually heavy last Thursday and Friday.
contract
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The number of option contracts can not exceed 10 percent of the number of securities in issue. 2.
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The Black-Scholes model is prized because it measures the fair value of stock option contracts .
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Last week saw an average 100 traded options contracts traded each day.
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In August 1991 an option contract was launched on the Bund future.
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Such tailor made option contracts should be distinguished from the traded options we consider here.
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Each option contract consists of the rights to buy or sell 1,000 of the underlying shares.
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Foreign currency option contracts were introduced in 1984.
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No long interest rate future or option contract exists at present due to the lack of liquidity in the underlying cash bond market.
policy
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It is intended that the results of the programme will inform the public about policy options .
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In fact, the Reagan urban strategy had the potential to constrain the policy options of cities.
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Analyse policy options for dealing with global environmental change and promoting the goal of sustainable development.
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Will the parties have an incentive to provide the information that this policy option exists?
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Under Operation Solarium three policy options were analysed.
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Questions on matters of policy should relate to policy options available to the Prime Minister.
scheme
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Consequently share option schemes are a thousand better than profit-sharing schemes.
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Executive share option schemes are also spreading.
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Stock option schemes are not available either.
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Most managers have already used up that leeway since share option schemes took off in 1985.
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This provides that the option scheme shares must not be subject to restrictions other than restrictions attaching to all shares of the same class.
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The number of shares in issue may be increased if shares are issued pursuant to the share option scheme . 2.
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The bidder will, in particular, need to consider the terms of any employee share option schemes .
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They also want to know when they will be able to participate in the share option scheme .
share
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Executive share option schemes are also spreading.
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The accounts also provide details of the gains so far on executive share options in the merged company.
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Earnings figures exclude share options and pension contributions.
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The informal ceiling placed on share option deals by institutional investors is said to be one reason.
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They sold low-price share options - and pocketed huge profits as City prices soared.
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Firstly, gains from share options in the final year of employment were no longer allowed in the calculation of final salary.
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The current tax regime encouraged pensions, share options and subsidised meals, but discouraged company loans, cars and petrol.
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Furthermore, the actual price of the shares only has to be paid upon exercising the share option .
■ VERB
buy
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Arthur Andersen and Andersen Consulting have reportedly jointly purchased 20,000 copies of the package, with an option to buy 40,000 more.
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Connors also exercised options to buy 20, 000 share for 1 41 / 64 or 15 5 / 8 each.
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With more products on the market, Roche could be encouraged to exercise its option to buy the rest of Genentech.
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Cabra is now enforcing the club's option to buy - at a £22.8m price determined by arbitrators.
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Disney has an option to buy the entire 140, 000 square-foot site from Slough Estates for an undisclosed sum.
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Andersen Consulting and Arthur Andersen recently bought 20,000 copies of the product, with an option to buy 40,000 more.
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The town also worked out a deal to lease 24 acres, with an option to buy .
choose
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As the recession deepens, it is going to force the TECs into choosing between three undesirable options .
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Experience shows that it is above all the last option that was chosen .
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We underestimated the amount of counselling required to ensure that students choose appropriate options .
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Members choose the option that best fits their Internet usage needs.
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Only those who chose the last option survived.
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Once we choose an option and make personal commitments to each other, we have another new project.
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Most enterprises have to choose one of three options .
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Most of the time, all you need to do is choose the Extract Files option under the Unzip menu.
consider
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If this does not occur, then revert to the normal diet and consider other options .
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The fuel pump gave out and left us sitting by the side of the road in the heat to consider our options .
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The most important thing is to consider all the options .
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The council was considering several options outlined by City Attorney Glenn Sabine.
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The Ex Comm considered a series of options .
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After considering his options , Henderson left Tandem in March for another job.
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He picked up Laura's gun and considered his options .
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Other building societies said they were considering their options and would issue statements later today.
create
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To use this product it must be created using option 5.1.1 - Create Product.
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No one is interested in creating a high-cost option .
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To use a Client name in this situation, the name must have been created previously using option 5.2.1 - Create Client.
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Now technology has created more options , including fax, e-mail, and videotape.
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What modern materials have done is create options over construction, and ease maintenance after installation.
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An Issue can now be created using option 5.3.1 - Create Issue.
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The second part is an overview of the trading strategies which may be created using traded options .
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To use this package name you should create it using option 1.1.1 - Create Package/Product.
exercise
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Expenditure a person incurs by exercising an option in a contract is not expenditure incurred under that contract.
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Connors also exercised options to buy 20, 000 share for 1 41 / 64 or 15 5 / 8 each.
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Most significant is a decision to exercise an option with Adtranz for 400 main line electric locos of Class 145.
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Many of its 3, 000 rank-and-file workers also exercised options as an unusually long quiet period ended.
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It therefore pays to make the earliest and fullest possible enquiries before exercising your option choice.
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With more products on the market, Roche could be encouraged to exercise its option to buy the rest of Genentech.
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The buyer exercised the option , but then did not complete the contract, so the seller took him to court.
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Some people who design compensation packages have suggested a possible ceiling on exercising stock options to keep a lid on the wealth.
give
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The screen then gives you the option of choosing the level of help required.
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Rich colors, luscious textures, and inventive layering are giving women more options in hosiery than in past seasons.
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Clubs also look set to be given the option of having players' names on the back of their shirts.
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Many private plans also refuse to do the paperwork necessary to give employees the option of repaying their loans.
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Benches with reversible tops give the option of either a smooth surface or recessed gravel trays for summer and are particularly useful.
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The multimedia disc takes the art of computer golf to a new level, giving players unprecedented options and flexibility.
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I feel Wallace would have been more effective in this match ... to give that option .
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The compromise provides aid for children and gives counties the option of providing parents with employment or other services.
include
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These include an Academic Study option specially planned for overseas students.
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Murray pocketed $ 2, 971, including options , and Kennedy won merchandise and $ 200 in options money.
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Other complicated structures are possible; these include performance-related options which would permit management to obtain more shares.
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Unless school-to-work systems include strong options for post-secondary education, they will have few takers and even less support.
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The pact is to last three years and includes an option to extend.
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Most search engines and directories include advanced options , but their methods vary from system to system.
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These figures do not include stock options .
keep
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Many young people want to keep their options open.
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But he said he wanted to keep his options for later in the fiscal year.
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You need to keep your options open in order to change courses at a moment's notice.
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Flexibility is key, keeping your options open.
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I never said much because I wanted to keep my options open.
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And law school seemed the kind of education that allowed one to keep open options .
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Either way, you can keep your options open.
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I want to keep all of my options open.
leave
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In principle, after 1834, those who were physically capable of work were left no option but to support themselves.
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And it left open the fourth option , to step up military action against Hanoi and otherwise escalate the war.
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As a result, hon. Members are left with the option of trying to inveigle their points in an artificial way.
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Congress left itself the option of forbidding line-item vetoes of major program appropriations, such as funding more Stealth bombers.
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Now Labour-controlled Bradford council has supported outline building proposals, leaving the Widdups little option but to go.
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The fact that this area of the post office is open twenty-four hours a day leaves Blue with few options .
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He had left himself the option of return.
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But he left open the option of serving as Mr Clinton's vice-presidential running-mate in the general election against President Bush.
limit
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One question policyholders should ask is - if the company did underperform last year, has this limited its options ?
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Even Buchanan, who ignited the debate over layoffs, acknowledges he would have limited options as president.
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Historical and economic factors also limit our options .
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Individuals who want to trade in off-hours do have certain limited options .
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They limit your design options , irritate users, break too often and require more planning and maintenance.
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Desjardins said Lindros should stop limiting his trade options to Toronto.
offer
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Celebrate in desert elegance, the historic Rex Ranch offers a variety of options .
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The client may be offered a number of options at the end of the session.
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The school board offered the student the option of leaving the room or standing silently.
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Other variations - Pekinese and Szechwan among them - offer other options like a greater variety of baked and highly-spiced dishes.
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They offer three options for Horton: to Roughly stay as they are when they become a health Service Trust.
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Its agreement in February 1990 set a Brady pattern by offering three options to commercial-bank creditors.
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A real shame, as the slickly presented management section offers plenty of options .
provide
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Neither does canned food provide an environmentally friendly option for preserving food.
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Marshall deftly provides her characters with options and opportunities to behave well.
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The main menu provides eight options altogether, each selectable by number.
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San Francisco, although it has done better than many cities at providing preschool options for poorer children, still faces disparities.
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In addition, Mortgagesure Plus provides the option of a tax-free income for your partner.
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This function is provided by option 6, Preview, on the print prompt line.
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Most camcorders provide manual control options to allow you to do this.
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To those with an affected fetus, early diagnosis provides the option of early termination.
select
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You should select this option again to display further data.
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To select without sorting, first define the selection condition, then press 5 to select the Action option .
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You should either continue with further mail transactions or select another option .
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Press 3 to select the Select Printers option .
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Used to input a value to select an option , specify a parameter, terminate a pause etc.
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What we do is to select options from an antecedently specified set.
show
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The analysis had shown that the cheapest option was to build a particular road in a straight line.
use
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The start time and the duration of the offline run must also be specified using option 9.2.0.
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Identify them, then revise the paragraph using different options . 1.
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Media types can be defined using option 9.5.0.
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A listing of all existing product names can be obtained using option 5.4.4 - View Product Titles.
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Package and Product module names can be reserved using option 1.1.1.
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You should now use option 5.2.2 - Update Client to add the product's details.
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The approval status of the package can be determined also by using option 1.5.5 - View Package Status Enquiries.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
that is not an option
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As for replacement fuels, many people do not like to contemplate the nuclear option .
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He basically has two options: he can have the surgery, or he can give up playing football.
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I haven't signed any contracts yet - I want to keep my options open.
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Joining the military seemed like the best option at the time.
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Leather seats are an option on the Toyota Camry.
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Our only option now is to contact the police.
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Press "P" to select the print option .
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These people have no option but to take low paid unattractive work.
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What other options do I have?
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Working full-time may not be your best option .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among the options now under consideration, White House officials said, were a restoration of those earlier restrictions.
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He pointed out that a design could be drawn using one option and knitted using another.
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If the invitation says black tie optional, take the option .
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Murray pocketed $ 2, 971, including options, and Kennedy won merchandise and $ 200 in options money.
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The Corrado also has a multi-function computer, while the Calibra has a no-cost option of metallic paint.
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Where these materials have to be cleaned methylene chloride is the only chemical option once items are soiled.