Word: chosen
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Presidential candidates chosen by Mexico's dominant P.R.I. (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) are as certain of election as machine aldermen in Chicago. For that reason, power tends to drain rapidly from their lameduck predecessors as Presidents-elect stake out their policies. Since he was tapped to succeed Luis Echeverria as Mexico's President 14 months ago, José López Portillo has broken with that tradition. Even though he carried out a grueling 40,600-mile campaign from the oilfields and swamps of Tabasco to the high sierra, "Don Pepe" has promised only to govern by the "laws...
Tragic, comic and sentimental as only Irish plays can be, The Plough and the Stars is one of the plays that has made Ireland's Abbey Theatre world-renowned (not only as a center of culture, but as the focus of controversy). The Plough and the Stars was chosen for the Abbey's bicentennial tour in New York and Boston because it was definitive in developing the "Abbey style" of Irish realism: perfect brogues, meticulous blocking, sublime melodrama...
...feel the dorm makes up in camaraderie what it lacks in luxury. "The facilities are so crummy that they must have made an extra effort to put good people here," one student theorizes. His view is accepted by those who have come to believe that Pennypacker houses the chosen people of the freshman class...
...although the subject matter is well chosen, analysis of events sometimes falls short. The purpose of an explicitly socialist newspaper ought to be to provide a perspective that is otherwise lacking in the media...
...citizens abroad, but the conduct of governments supposedly regarded as allies. While this sort of concern seems justified given the sort of allies American administrations have been inclined to choose, it is indicative of the perversity of American foreign relations. Not only has the United States chosen allies that it cannot trust, but the integrity of the American political process has been jeopardized for the sake of these allies and the mutual suspicions engendered by the alliances themselves...