Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Woods has no regret at having chosen exile. "Even if I had been released," he reflected, "I would always have felt that they had just lifted the blade an inch or two before they let it drop again...
...President made two key alterations in the CAB proposal. The board had recommended that National be allowed to fly only to Paris; the President added Amsterdam and Frankfurt. More important, the CAB had decided by a 4-to-1 vote that Pan Am be chosen to open service on the potentially lucrative route from Dallas-Fort Worth to London. Its reason: Pan Am, which only in the past two years has begun to earn a profit after years of heavy losses that at one point drove it to the brink of bankruptcy, could not stand any more competition. Carter gave...
...Dallas can do bigger and better is a local creed that pervades everything from the palatial mansions of Highland Park and the outrageously expensive bagatelles of Nei-man-Marcus to the ample, amply displayed busts of the famous Cowboy cheerleaders. Other teams have cheerleaders, but none has chosen them with so much care as Dallas?and then put them in uniforms with so little cloth. Nearly 700 women try out each fall for the 36 low-neckline, high-kicking jobs. While the Chosen Ones receive little pay ($15 per game), they get more air time than many a television star...
After voting for the CUE members, ERG selected three co-chairmen to guide the group's future activities. Debra Gelin '79, Robin Hacke '80 and Bonnie Norman '80 were chosen by lot from six candidates...
...center of a movie, Reiner may feel he is paying the ultimate tribute to this cigar-smoking, endearing little man. Too bad Reiner's religious offering did not include a good script. Great pains have obviously been taken to prevent the placid Burns from being upstaged; Reiner has chosen to cast him opposite John Denver, an innocuous, highly-forgettable country-western singer, and a company of lovable codgers from Barnard Hughes to Ralph Bellamy. Denver's wife, who must put up with his "visions," is played, badly, by Teri Garr, who went on to become the wife of a similarly...