In 2008,the giant Coca-Cola Company bought 40 percent of Honest Tea and has the option of buying it all in 2011.
VOA: standard.2010.02.17
It's on the market, very popular in terms of your choices right now as an option as an anti-depressant.
它在市场上,作为治疗抑郁症的一种选择,现在非常畅销。
As far as I can see,the best option for the body theorist at this point is to add--no surprises here--a no branching rule.
据我所知,肉体理论者最好的选择就是,毫无意外地,是加上一条无分支规则。
And even some Democrats have been debating whether a reform bill should include a government-run insurance plan, known as a "public option."
VOA: standard.2009.10.26
If stock price option -if stock options tend to be issued as announced by the company later, just before stock prices go up, there's no way that that can be right because nobody can know exactly when the stock price is going to go up.
如果股票期权价格...,如果就像公司事后宣称的一样,公司恰好是在股价上涨之前,发行的股票期权,这是不可能做到的,因为没有人可以确切知道,股票价格何时会上涨
Most contentious was the proposal for a government-run insurance option, also known as a public option, to give Americans a choice over private insurance companies.
VOA: standard.2009.11.08
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to form a compromise among Democrats about whether health reform legislation should include an option for government-run insurance.
VOA: standard.2009.12.06
Democrats and Republicans present sharply divergent views on the so-called "public option".
VOA: standard.2009.09.09
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she believes it is essential that a government-sponsored public option be part of any bill, if it is to be passed by the House.
VOA: standard.2009.09.09
Of course,the biggest difference between the two bills, and one likely to cause the most friction in House-Senate negotiations, involves the so-called "public option" or competing insurance the government would offer.
VOA: standard.2009.12.25
President Obama said a government-run insurance option as an alternative to private insurers is one part of Democrat's health care proposal, adding he is willing to address legitimate concerns Republicans have.
VOA: standard.2009.09.10
These talks, which will formally get under way early in the new year, will take place amid anger among many liberal House Democrats the Senate bill failed to contain a government-run insurance option.
VOA: standard.2009.12.25
Two liberal House Democrats, Lynne Woolsey and Barbara Lee, said on Wednesday they intend to fightto keep this public option in, along with other steps to protect lower and middle-income Americans and hold insurance companies accountable.
VOA: standard.2009.12.24
Although not the only controversial aspect of reform proposals put forward by Democrats and supported by the president, a proposed government-run insurance option as an alternative to plans offered to Americans by private companies has drawn the most attention.
VOA: standard.2009.09.09
Negotiations with the House of Representatives to craft a final bill for President Obama will be difficult because of some major differences, notably the House bill's provision for a government-run health insurance option, absent from the Senate measure.
VOA: standard.2009.12.24
Members of the House Progressive Caucus have vowed to fight to keep this public option in any final legislation that emerges, along with other provisions they say are needed to protect lower and middle-income Americans and hold insurance companies accountable.
VOA: standard.2009.12.25
Senate Democrats were forced to make concessions to some of their members and to Independents, the most significant being the elimination of a government-run insurance option to compete with private companies whose practices have been the focus of sharp criticism for decades.
VOA: standard.2009.12.25
"We have 10 percent that we have to work on, and we can do that." In his speech, Mr.Obama is expected to campaign for what is called the public option a government-run health insurance plan which would compete with private insurers.
VOA: standard.2009.09.08
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