Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Ford has nothing to be ashamed about. Morally, he gave us what we needed at the time he assumed office. But what America now needs is a change-an energetic, thoughtful man -and America has chosen Jimmy Carter...
...Parti Québécois wept, cheered and sang "Tomorrow belongs to us ..." as Péquiste Party Leader René Lévesque, 54, appeared to claim victory. In an extraordinary election that could affect Canada's future as a nation, Quebec voters had chosen as Premier a man whose party is committed to leading the 6 million citizens of the predominantly French-speaking province out of the 109-year-old confederation. Straining to contain his feelings, Lévesque issued a choked declaration: "We hope, in friendship with our fellow citizens in Canada, to arrive...
...death-a desire that some psychologists now believe may have motivated his apparently random killings. A pardon-board hearing of his case was delayed last week until December so that he can recover. To head off another suicide try-so that the state may execute him at the legally chosen time-Gilmore will now be held in the infirmary in "as close to solitary confinement as this prison has had in years," said Warden Samuel Smith. Meantime Gilmore has little to do except mull over the book and movie offers that are pouring...
...intended to cover only districts where desegregation was working -in order to determine why it had worked-while the 29 case studies were to be divided among those districts where there had been no progress, moderate progress, and substantial progress. Yet, in the end, only three of the districts chosen fell into the first category...
There seem to be two substantive ways in which the program could be reformed. A stiff core curriculum could be introduced or all requirements could be abolished. The task force on core curriculum has chosen the first course. It proposes that all students should be required to pick one course out of eight offered in biology, physics, math, nonwestern cultures, modern social analysis and political and moral philosophy, and one out of 12 in western culture. Other recommendations include the abolition of the language requirement and continuation of an expository writing requirement...