Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter's Justice Department could have chosen not to prosecute the now retired ambassador at all or, at the opposite extreme, to charge him with two felony counts of perjury, each carrying a maximum five-year prison sentence and a $2,000 fine. The department took a middle course, charging the 64-year-old Helms with two misdemeanor counts of failing to answer senatorial questions "fully, completely and accurately." The penalty on each count is 30 days to a year in jail and a fine...
...leaders have become thoughtless and unwholesome. Our politicians are more of salesmen than statesmen. Much wealth accumulates in the hands of a few while a majority of the people decay with misery and poverty. The intellectual elite that was vocal, vital and critical of corrupt governments has chosen to either join the corruption, flee the country or suffer in silence. The army which should protect the interest of the people has become fickle-minded and equally as corrupt as the governments they seek to perpetrate. A new method of corruption, practised by many African governments, is that of the "unopposed...
Both chambers began the session by reforming their ways of doing business. The Senate streamlined its committee structure; it also served notice that tyrannical committee chairmen, once chosen on the basis of seniority alone, could be replaced. The House similarly undermined entrenched committee bosses and shifted power to the Speaker. Democrat Tip O'Neill used that leverage to become the strongest Speaker since "Uncle" Joe Cannon, some 65 years ago. Both House and Senate also adopted new ethics rules limiting the outside income that members were allowed to earn...
...enjoy (or don't enjoy) their own seminars, their own living area, their own dining hall, their own parties, their own intramurals, their own squads in inter-collegate sports--including their own crew shells--and their own literary magazine. Ever since Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, led his chosen people out of the wasteland of the Quad to the chosen Yard, these traditional but mostly fluid divisions have become solid barriers to interaction between the classes. Recent innovations like closing the Union to upperclassmen during lunch, keeping the Union open on weekends(so freshmen can avoid the truma...
...resulting lack of information can sometimes have important results. Last year's freshmen voted to join the CRR without really knowing its particulars or purpose. The paternal outcry of the more worldly and knowing upperclassmen did not deter the freshmen from their chosen path, and the seven-year boycott died a quiet death...