Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that more lives are saved than lost by the firearms Americans acquire to protect themselves and their property. The N.R.A. emphasized that claim in a two-page newspaper advertisement attacking TIME for its report ((July 17)) on 464 gun deaths that occurred in the U.S. in a single week, chosen at random. "Legally-owned firearms saved the lives of far more Americans than those lost during ((TIME's)) 'seven deadly days,' " the advertisement stated. "According to noted criminologist Dr. Gary Kleck of Florida State University, every year some 650,000 Americans use firearms to thwart criminal assault. That...
...book's premise is that the generation became splintered and cynical in the '70s, but now that it has achieved status and wealth, the Woodstock Generation is poised for a comeback and a resurgence of idealism. If anyone can have it all, it is the Woodstock Generation, the chosen people...
Strauss concedes that minorities are underrepresented on the city council, which has eight members chosen from single-member districts and two others (plus the mayor) elected from the city at large. She and the council have proposed a system of ten single districts, with four other members to be picked from large areas of the city...
...Deputies, reformers take a historic stand against party rule, while scholars call into question the founder of the Soviet state. -- Denis Thatcher, the British Prime Minister's husband, keeps a stiff upper lip in public. -- Poland narrowly avoids political chaos again as the Communist's Czeslaw Kiszczak is chosen to be Prime Minister, while food prices soar...
...logical arguments, boomed out in her loud voice during the Diet's question hour, have instilled fear in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Seeking a gimmick to rebound from a disastrous election in 1986, the J.S.P. asked Doi to take on the party's leadership. Fearing she had been chosen as a "paper tiger" with no influence over policy, Doi, according to some reports, conducted tough negotiations with back-room power brokers to win the clout she felt she needed...