Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...childless have found ways to satisfy their nurturing instincts. Jon Wilkman, 45, a Los Angeles filmmaker, advocates "uncle empowerment," which enables him to take his nephews to concerts and plays. Toni Moore, 47, a schoolteacher from Charlotte who has been married eight years and has chosen not to have children, helps pay tuition for her niece and nephew and takes them along on special vacations. New York City-based Joni Evans, 45, publisher of Random House trade books, openly mothers her authors and colleagues and feels no societal pressure to have children ("People ask, Are you a child person...
Even when the candidates publicly consider tax increases, they never call them that. Instead, tax increases become "revenue enhancers." Can "negative refunds" be far behind? Confronted with the paradox that playing it straight with the voters equals electoral disaster, Presidential aspirants have understandably chosen to hide behind euphemism and obfuscation...
...Everyone knows that there are two levels of basketball in Division I," Columbia Coach Wally Halas says. "One is a pre-professional program, and the other has college basketball as something that happens on a college campus. Schools have chosen different routes, and there certainly is a wide gap between them...
Better alternatives could have been chosen. The first would be to include the appropriate mathematical tehniques as material in 1010. A second, more drastic measure, would be to require that every honors Economics concentrator pass a Math 21a: "Intermediate Calculus" final, whether they have to take the course or not. Instead of trying to maximize the size of the department by making Economics a popular, and easy, concentration, the faculty should ensure that honors students are qualified, well-educated scholars in their field...
...discipline, students would get more out of the department--and the department would get more out of its students. Ec 1011 may be difficult, but it should remain a requirement of honors concentrators if they truly want to become qualified in the field of study they have chosen...