And companies embraced options in part because they did not have to account for them as an employee cost and therefore could keep corporate expenses down.
Just as an expanding market has forced Internet service providers to widen their pricing choices, telephone companies are embracing options like per-minute charges for occasional use, monthly fees for unlimited calls or the cellular model, where a set price yields a certain number of minutes, with additional minutes costing extra.
And, as SMUD has shown, even if people aren't clamoring to sign up, the vast majority of them embrace the option when it's offered.
Tax credits should be available both to employers and to workers who embrace this option, and to companies that offer broadband access where it has been absent or inadequate.
We also could ramp up the availability of part-time positions for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) teachers, but — again — few schools and states embrace this option because unions worry that districts will seek to replace full-time employees and their costly benefits with part-timers.
These are both the objects of our judgement and partly constitutive of them — to passionately embrace an option is different from cooly determining it to be best.
VW's unlikely to embrace that option, because adding hardware to half a million cars would be far more expensive than a computer update.
2. As a result of the higher cost of buprenorphine, historically the for-profit clinics are hesitant to embrace this option due to the fear that existing methadone patients will want to switch to buprenorphine and thus hurt profit margins.
But before embracing that option, doctors and politicians should consider other ways to shore up the dignity and self-determination of the individual.
So he's telling fans to cast off cable and embrace satellite options or new TV services from Verizon and AT&T.
Just this week, Burger King announced it was launching "apple fries" - slices of apple cut to look like chips - in an effort to persuade young customers to embrace healthier options.
