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1975 NBA Finals

A Sports Illustrated article about the series reported that Washington, which held home court advantage, was given the option of a 1-2-2-1-1 scheduling format due to Golden State's problems or, if they wished, opening on the road and then having Games 2, 3, and 4 at home.

Alfredo Valente

Several months later, Valente was released by the Whitecaps, as the club chose against his 2009 contract option, on December 8, 2008, along with fellow veterans Steve Kindel, Jeff Clarke.

ASAHI Net

;:ASAHI Net subscribers have the option of donating 100 yen to the effort to end world hunger through the World Food Programme organization as part of the United Nations.

Ashbritt

The Army Corps of Engineers awarded AshBritt a contract worth $850 million to remove Hurricane Katrina debris in Mississippi, with an option to increase the dollar amount to one billion dollars.

Automatic programming

This option has been used for handling mathematically large expressions in e.g. computational (quantum) chemistry.

Babyji

In Babyji, Dawesar paints a Delhi of crime, rape, dirt, blackouts, backwardness, residual colonialism, domestic violence, and arranged marriages, a city where promising young people often see their only option as going to the United States, thus contributing to the brain drain and setting in motion a vicious circle.

Ben Starosta

In the summer of 2011 Starosta returned to Poland and signed a one-year deal for II liga side Miedź Legnica with the option of extending the deal for another two seasons.

Canada–Latin America relations

This incredible divergence was essentially manifested in Mitchell Sharp’s “Options for the Future” (otherwise known as the ‘Third Option Paper’), which reaffirmed the tenets of “Foreign Policy for Canadians”, but considered U.S.-Canada relations in greater detail.

CoDeSys

The CODESYS Professional Developer Edition offers the option to add components to the tool which are subject to licensing, e.g. integrated UML support, a connection to the Apache Subversion version control system or static code analysis of the application code.

Diamond DA20

In November 2008 the company announced that it would be offering an Aspen Avionics glass cockpit primary flight display as an option on the DA20.

Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010

CEO of ERR Margus Allikmaa stated that "Personally I think cancelling Eurovision participation is the easiest option" in combat to the 28 million kroon (1.5 million) cut in spending.

Fe'fe' language

In was one of the four languages selected for option at the Collège Libermann at Douala (along with Duala, Basaa, and Banjun).

Focke-Wulf A 38

All four A 38s were originally fitted with Siemens- or Gnome et Rhône-built Bristol Jupiter engines (although the BMW VI had been offered as an option), but in April 1933, all aircraft were refitted with Siemens Sh 20 powerplants.

Freestone and Webb

This was the same year as the introduction of the Bentley S1/Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud both of which came as a chassis only option until 1965.

Hattersley Memorandum

Apart for removing such an option from the constitutional and political development of Gibraltar, it effectively disbanded the Integration with Britain Party, which had been in office from 1969 to 1972, and was the main supporter of the integration of Gibraltar into the United Kingdom.

Health insurance cooperative

Howard Dean and other Democrats have criticized abandoning the idea of a federally run, statewide, public option in favor of co-ops, questioning whether the co-ops would have enough negotiating power to compete with private health insurers.

Holden HK

161-cubic-inch (2.6-litre) and 186-cubic-inch (3.0-litre) inline six-cylinder engines were carried over from the HR series; however, a 307-cubic-inch (5.0-litre) Chevrolet V8 was now offered as an option on all models, this being the first time that any Holden had been available with a V8 engine.

Honda Phantom

Tyre Size: Front - 90/90 - 17M / C49P (Tubeless) ; Rear - 130/90 15M / C66P (Tubeless), available from Metzeler (Lasertec), Pirelli (City Demon), Bridgestone (Exedra), IRC (from Thailand) and Shinko (with white-walled option)

Ion rapid transit

The International Railway Journal reported on July 12, 2013, that the region would be purchasing 14 trainsets, with an option to buy 16 more.

Ishmael Yartey

Yartey began his youth and professional career with Ghanaian club All Blacks F.C., before joining S.L. Benfica on a 1-year loan deal with a buy option at the end of the contract.

Iuliu Maniu

After serving as an advisor for Archduke Franz Ferdinand, counseling on the latter's projects to redefine the Habsburg states along the lines of a United States of Greater Austria, Maniu moved towards the option of a union with the Romanian Old Kingdom when the Archduke was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914.

Kjartan Finnbogason

In August 2009, Kjartan signed a 6-month loan deal at Falkirk, with an option of a permanent deal.

Landau–Rohrbach railway

The first draft favoured a new line directly via Hengsberg, while the second option was an alignment through Walshausen and along the Trualbe through Hornbach and Ixheim.

Len Barrie

Neither exercised that option and the team was later sold to Jeff Vinik, a minority owner of the Boston Red Sox.

M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle

While Marine Corps Systems Command was optimistic about operational testing, former Commandant of the Marine Corps General James T. Conway remained skeptical that the reduced firepower at the fireteam-level was a viable option.

Mike Resnick

He has also sold screenplays based on his novels to Miramax, Capella, and Jupiter 9, and often has multiple properties under option to Hollywood studios.

Minimum of Two

Since 2005 the anthology has been included in the VCE reading list, as an option for study by Year 11 and 12 English Students.

Modekngei

Students and faculty have the option of living on campus in traditional dormatory-style housing with no electricity or running water, or in the surrounding villages of Ngatpang.

Moestafa El Kabir

On 5 April 2011, Cagliari President Massimo Cellino announced that a deal had been made for the transfer of El Kabir to Cagliari for the 2011–12 Serie A season and had an option to him then for another three years to capture.

Nofey Golan High School

The school also offers its students an option to learn at the Tel-Hai Academic College, while learning at the school.

Organization of American States Secretary General election, 2005

The press had initially speculated that Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros, the current foreign minister of Peru, would have been a likely "consensus" candidate in the new scenario, and on 12 April, the Lima daily Perú 21 gave the name of former transitional president Valentín Paniagua as another option.

Paxton Automotive

A short run of Shelby Mustangs were fitted with Paxton superchargers, and Ford dealers offered Paxton superchargers as a dealer-fitted Ford Mustang option from 1965 to 1972.

PowerDirector

Other notable new features include direct links to Flickr and Freesound, the option to apply multiple fixes at once using Magic Clean, and beat detection technology – which syncs audio with movie content.

Puerto Rico Democracy Act

The first, proposed by Virginia Foxx, stated that it "would allow supporters of the commonwealth status quo the option of voting their preference during the second stage of the plebiscite."

Reggie Abercrombie

Though he never materialized into a consistent option for the Marlins, on April 19, 2006, while playing against the Cincinnati Reds in the Great American Ballpark, Abercrombie, facing pitcher Mike Gosling, hit a home run 486 feet, according to Hit Tracker Online's Standard Distance (considered "the best way of comparing home runs hit under a variety of different conditions" by the website).

Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow

The Wraith II is identified by all of alterations found on the Silver Shadow II and additionally an Everflex covered roof (also available as an option on the Silver Shadow II), a smaller rear opera-style window (some customers deleted the smaller back window: for example Joe Bamford of JCB) and different wheel covers.

Rough Racer

Like Sprint and Leland's Super Off Road, the player has the option to spend money earned on upgrades for their cars after a race, such as a shield, high-grip tires as well as nitrous—which can be used as a weapon as explained below.

San Antonio River Walk

Work began on the Olmos Dam and bypass channel in 1926; however, the San Antonio Conservation Society successfully protested the paved sewer option.

Substitute teacher

The remaining three starred Treat Williams, and were The Substitute 2: School's Out, The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All, and The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option.

Superman: At Earth's End

Faced with no other option, Superman takes the Expunger with him and returns, defeating the Diktators' legions of lion-men and mutant SS troopers in a hail of gunfire.

Three-state solution

Daniel Pipes describes the “Jordan-Egypt option” as “a uniquely sober way” to bring peace.

Transport in Amsterdam

The nearby port city of Ijmuiden is a popular travel option for those wishing to visit Amsterdam.

TVNZ ondemand

Since April 2010, TVNZ Ondemand has been available on the PlayStation 3 as an extra option in the XrossMediaBar for anyone in New Zealand running version 3.10 of the system firmware or later.

Um El Faroud

She occupied the dock in the harbor of Valletta for three years until it was decided that the best option to utilize her remaining value was to tow her to sea and scuttle her as an artificial reef in 1998.

United Kingdom and the euro

However, as national variation is a requisite of euro coins, it remains an option for the Royal Mint to incorporate the symbols of the Home Nations into its designs for the British national sides of euro coinage.

Vileness Fats

In 2001, The Residents released their ambitious Icky Flix project on DVD and CD, the DVD featuring their classic music videos with the option of a brand new soundtrack.

Woodhead Tunnel

Transport Minister Stephen Hammond said that building a new tunnel would be a better option should the route ever be used again for trains.

Wordfilter

Other games such as Medal of Honor and Call of Duty (except Call of Duty: World at War, Call of Duty: Black Ops, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2) do not give users the option to turn off scripted foul language, while Gears of War does.


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