Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room....A union would provide 'Cliffies with a place to relax between classes. It would lessen the social pressure on Widener, leaving the library to those who want to study. And such a meeting place might ease social tensions and uncertainties between Harvard and Radcliffe...Whatever building is finally chosen the University should support the project. Dating is expensive in Cambridge, and most Harvard students would welcome the chance to associate with girls in a natural and freewheeling context. Social life at the University today is too often restricted and artificial." November...
Once Hanks was hooked on acting, the result of a junior-college theater course, his path was fairly smooth. In 1980 he was chosen as the co-star of Bosom Buddies, a short-lived comedy about two young advertising copywriters. A year after the show was canceled in 1982, Hanks landed the part of an ordinary guy who falls in love with a mermaid. Before you could say Splash, he was a star...
...perestroika, in the renewal of society. There are grounds for this. Perestroika is distinguished by a vigorous social policy. This is very important for improving people's everyday life and family life and for the upbringing of children. This policy provides women with greater opportunities to practice their chosen profession, to go about their favorite pursuits and -- not least important -- to take good care of themselves in order to remain an equal and desired loved one, wife and mother for many years to come...
...caper took a month to plan, and just 64 minutes to execute. On Friday, May 13 -- a date chosen in a spirit of mischief -- an $18,000-a-year clerk at First National Bank of Chicago set in motion a simple scheme that nearly bilked his employer out of $68.7 million. Aided by a gang of accomplices and his knowledge of a few secret codes, Gabriel Taylor, 27, electronically transferred the money from accounts belonging to Merrill Lynch, United Airlines and Brown-Forman distillers to accounts that some of the conspirators had set up under assumed names at two banks...
...sites chosen for the coming standoff are two coastal strips centered on Puerto Escondido on the Pacific Coast and Huatuxco on the Caribbean. The bees, which are reluctant to fly higher than 3,000 ft., will be funneled into passes, where they will be trapped and killed or tricked into doing themselves in. The U.S. and Mexico are sharing the $6.3 million price tag for the two- year project...