Option
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One traveler, however, quickly realizes that writing $99 would be a better option, because it would garner that extra $2 reward, and thus a total of $101.
Over the last two decades, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have used this
option
often, greatly improving human development outcomes as a result.
That creates a vicious cycle: the bailout
option
for too-big-to-fail banks concentrates the derivatives market among a few major institutions, increasing further their systemic importance.
While the government would still have to back deposits for crisis-stricken banks – even if that meant bailing out the entire institution – it would have had the
option
of allowing the derivatives trading desks, functioning within separate organizations, to flounder.
The third
option
is to use environmental protection to justify moving China ahead with real political reform sooner rather than later.
Finally, there is the “military option,” which would merely justify fears in Sudan of Western “imperialism.”
The answer is that such questions were never an option, if we were to fulfill our treaty obligations and avoid a catastrophic repeat of nineteenth-century colonialism.
But the stick
option
– reinforcing the sanctions regime against Russia – may not do the trick, either.
One
option
is to return the fines directly to foreign governments, which could then invest in, say, anti-corruption commissions or improved public-sector financial management.
The addition of the renminbi as a possible reserve
option
would free today’s lame ducks from their forced marriage.
This opens up a new policy
option
for the West: impelling North Korea to dial back its foreign and security policy by deepening its economic and social engagement with the rest of the world.
If Kim is insane, the only
option
is to take him out before his suicidal regime can kill millions of people.
Without such a global trade option, the West Bank and Gaza could be prevented from exporting both goods and labor, producing even more dire and tragic consequences for the Palestinian people.
The Treasury report makes a big deal of demanding that bankruptcy must be the first and preferred
option
when a big bank is in trouble.
If South Asia is to begin to build a future of peace and prosperity, the latter
option
is the only viable way forward.
Despite the increasingly desperate violence, there is nothing to indicate that Mexico’s political class is even prepared to consider the sixth
option.
This leaves further unilateral Israeli moves – such as a partial set of withdrawals from selected areas in the West Bank – as the only feasible
option.
But, too often, we hear commentators suggest that when Greenpeace and Big Business agree on something, it must be a sensible
option.
Solar technology has improved, and its declining cost has made it a viable
option.
Fortunately, this is no longer a realistic
option.
Or is the new context enough to make him seem like France’s best
option?
The UN and many countries officially share the view that bio-fuel is one
option
in fighting climate change.
That
option
should be supported.
But in Europe there is another
option
for raising revenues: the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (ETS).
Her assassination by Islamist elements foreclosed that
option.
But, as protagonists in the complex web of interaction between the Muslim and the Western worlds, they view militant terrorism as their preferred
option.
The first option, a sharp weakening of the euro, is unlikely, as Germany is strong and the ECB is not aggressively easing monetary policy.
But simply giving up on Middle East nuclear nonproliferation efforts is not an
option.
That
option
was considered at the time, but American officials decided that the effect on Japanese policymakers would not be as great.
Many children display cross-gender behavior or express a wish to be of the opposite sex, but when given the
option
of sex reassignment, only a tiny fraction undergo the full procedure.
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