Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last spring the department searched for a professor who specialized in biological psychology. After the scholar chosen rejected Harvard's offer, the appointment landed "on the shelf," Maher says...
...Soviet students desired change but wondered how to achieve it. We, too, wondered how and if the Soviet Union will change. Our reflections as we left Kiev were slanted because they were based on encounters with a specific type of Soviet citizen. Despite the students' candor, they were chosen to meet with us, and, as students, they represented an elite segment of Soviet society...
...most politicians, the inner circle means the old guard, longtime retainers whose chief virtue is loyalty rather than ability. Jesse Jackson has an inner circle, but the individuals seem chosen less for enduring devotion than for immediate usefulness, and their names and places change so often that advising Jackson can seem like a game of musical chairs...
Perched in the best section of "old Bel Air" in west Los Angeles, 668 St. Cloud Road is the newly chosen site of Ronald and Nancy Reagan's post-White House home. In selecting the place, the Reagans wisely relied on the traditional real estate mantra -- location, location, location. But they chose an unusual procedure for acquiring their new homestead: they are leasing it from a consortium of about 20 friends and investors who purchased it specifically for the President and the First Lady...
...Homer, as well as Darwin and Dante. The six new requirements are unspecified works from Plato, the Bible, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Rousseau and Marx. Next year Stanford's Western Culture Program will be formally replaced by CIV. All freshmen will read works "from at least one" non-European source chosen by the professor, who is required to give "substantial attention to issues of race, gender and class...