Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...location of the Cambridge drive was chosen because it houses a large number of newly naturalized minority citizens, said Zora Maynard, a longtime volunteer for the Rainbow Coalition...
Holroyd's biography is, he says, the first major one of Shaw since a spate of centenary tributes in 1956, and among the first in which the subject was not an unacknowledged co-author. Holroyd was chosen by the beneficiaries of Shaw's estate -- the British Museum, London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the National Gallery of Ireland -- and in consequence appears to have been able to unearth some new nuggets, although he offers no footnotes and has put off detailing his sources until after publication of his third volume. The advance from Holroyd's British publisher, Chatto...
...satisfying. Considering that Yoko Ono not only gave Wolper and director Andrew Solt access to countless hours of previously unseen footage but also gave them creative control over the final product, Imagine could well have been the definitive film about John. Unfortunately much of the footage is ill-chosen, and at an hour and a half, the film is much too short. Still, while Imagine fails as a comprehensive biography, it may help neophytes understand Lennon's appeal, and fans may find Imagine a poignant and occasionally amusing exercise in nostalgia...
...workday used to begin at 8 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. for all 46 workers in the compensation and benefits division at Du Pont's corporate headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Since July, the unit's employees have trickled in between 7 and 9:30 a.m., chosen a half-hour or one-hour lunch, and left between 3:30 and 6 p.m. -- as long as they have put in eight hours each day. Secretary Joann Wolanski, 28, picked an early shift; she begins at 7:30, takes a half-hour lunch and leaves at 4. The result: more time...
Once he returned to work, Greenhouse continued to follow the 7 a.m.-to-3:15 p.m. schedule that he had chosen under Transamerica's flextime policy. He says his professional standing has not been affected by the leave. But his choice is not yet a common one: few of the fathers eligible for Transamerica's paternity leave actually take...