Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan is trying to derail the freedom train. This administration has chosen to ignore Blacks and other minorities for the past eight years. Today, King's business is still incomplete. As a nation, we must ensure that his work is finished...
...occasion, or a football squad to crack the top-20, we should at the same time realize that for Harvard to be competitive in those sports would require the school to hand out scholarships and significantly lower its admissions standards. Top academic schools like Duke and Stanford have chosen to do that, but I firmly believe that Harvard should...
...chosen to walk in a line, than doing so is not an abridgement of anything. If I choose to walk on my tiptoes, I do so by choice. And if it does not hurt anyone around me, despite how tired I might get and how stupid I might look, it is my choice. Perhaps in another plane of existence, vaguely familiar to our own, one might hear a certain dean being appalled at the farcical practice of "punching" as an abridgement of human dignity...
...sensational tip of Regan's revelatory iceberg broke into the headlines last week, it evoked titillation among Washington insiders and an angry response from Ronald Reagan. "I would have preferred it if he decided to attack me," he said on Friday. "From what I hear, he's chosen to attack my wife, and I don't look kindly on that...
...into a national debate when Education Secretary William Bennett jumped into the fray to accuse the reformers of "trashing Plato and Shakespeare." Six weeks ago, in a deft compromise, Stanford's faculty senate voted to pare the required list to six classics plus at least one non-European work chosen by the individual professor with "substantial attention to issues of race, gender and class...