Word: choicers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact much of it consisted of offerings that had been put forward elsewhere, but there were also some choicer cuts. The President reiterated his proposal that the two nations wrap up the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva before the next summit -- which he suggested be held in Washington in June -- and sign an agreement to cut conventional forces in Europe by the end of 1990. Bush offered to end U.S. production of binary chemical weapons when other nations capable of producing chemical killers enter into an international convention banning them. That represents a change from the Administration's position...
...told, more than 10,000 constitutional amendments have been introduced in Congress since 1789. If some of the choicer ones had been accepted, the U.S. would boast a President selected by lot from among the members of the Senate, and a Supreme Court whose members could be removed by popular vote. But only 33 proposals have won the necessary approval from two-thirds of both houses of Congress. And just 26 have passed the final hurdle of adoption by legislatures in three-quarters of the states. The last of them, lowering the voting age to 18, turns 18 itself...
McLeod said that Professor Frank E. Sander, chairman of the Law School Ad Board, told him in December that Charles Choicer, a member of the Harvard Corporation, had made allegations against McLeod for his involvement in the protest...
...Frankford Arsenal, an 87.7-acre complex of 167 buildings, sheds and loading docks in Philadelphia, has all kinds of possibilities. The sale will offer property in every state but Alaska. Real estate dealers with a bankroll and real estate dreamers without one are sure to be enthusiastic over the choicer parcels. Some enticing examples...
...during a brief appearance on the Tonight show to promote Cosmic Connection, his first really popular book, he so impressed Host (and astronomy buff) Johnny Carson that he was soon invited back, for a choicer spot on the show. That second appearance gave Sagan a chance to tell the story of the evolution of the universe and the beginnings of life in his inimitable cadences: "Fifteen billion years ago, the universe was without form. There were no galaxies, stars or planets. There was no life. There was darkness everywhere." When Sagan's soliloquy ended, said a reviewer, 100,000 teen...