Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposedly powerful "opposition," of "antagonists" determined to "put a brake on perestroika." Addressing Soviet media officials last month, he warned, "Our antagonists are making their own plans and calculations" in the choice of delegates to the conference. "Our position is that ardent supporters of perestroika, active Communists, should be chosen as delegates . . . There must be no more quotas, as was the case in the past, specifying how many factory workers and farmers and how many women are to be chosen...
...Randi's targets are less enthusiastic. A Popoff staff member calls him "the devil" and an atheist. He has been the object of hate-mail campaigns by some of his foes. All to no avail. Says Randi: "No blackmail, no threats, can cause me to back away from my chosen work...
...Professor Kenneth Goldstein. Equally important, Konner is said to be a good administrator who knows how to raise money. From her spot on the university board, she was acutely aware of what she calls the school's "noble search to find the Holy Grail." Now that she has been chosen, she quips, "either they gave up or they found...
...Oxford and teaching school, has begun to feel that his method of raising money, while not in itself sinful, has inspired unholy passions in his soul. He longs, in short, to bet on everything. So, on the toss of a coin, he decides that he has been chosen to "bring the word of Christ to New South Wales." He and Lucinda take the same ship out to Sydney...
...event was canceled. Instead, 40 quarter-finalists assembled last week before a sprinkling of spectators in an austere union hall for what was dubbed a tea party. Rather than choose a single Miss Beijing, the pageant organizers honored twelve "outstanding contestants who left a relatively deep impression." Several were chosen for their "inner beauty" rather than their physical attributes...