The rating agencies are concerned that states may be opting for a one-time infusion to help reduce a deficit and that such borrowing is a sure sign of fiscal distress.
Sure, my daughter's generation may be "opting in" more than my own, but I feel they are doing so unwittingly, and so the Facebook generation is playing by Facebook's rules, rather than their own.
More colleges may be opting for differential tuition in response to plummeting state appropriations, Inside Higher Ed reported: Up until 1980, differential tuition rates within an institution were largely unheard-of, although some colleges did charge laboratory fees associated with certain courses.
Rather than pay for expensive divorce proceedings and the added costs of single living at a time when money is tight, couples may be opting to postpone separation and set aside their differences all for the affordability of cohabitation.If all of these marriages had the happy ending of the 1995 romantic comedy "For Richer or Poorer", a declining divorce rate might be a silver lining to the crisis.
The hype around its successor, the Galaxy SIV, is already cranking up, potentially dampening sales as consumers may be opting to wait for the next generation device — with a launch rumoured as soon as next month.
According to Miami University psychological scientist Amanda Diekman, women may be opting out of science careers because they perceive these careers as lacking in communal values like intimacy, altruism and connection with people.
This increase was observed across all cancer networks as more men may be opting for deferred treatment.
Rather than have a patient book an appointment to fill an ongoing prescription, prescribers may be opting to examine their patients' records and fill the refill request digitally when appropriate to do so.
YouTube beta program members may or may not be opted into those same experiments, as they roll out.
Induced abortion may rarely be opted for by parents because termination of pregnancy for socio-economic reasons is illegal in PNG and subject to severe legal punishment.
