Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LIVING with carefully chosen roommates, I became somewhat insulated to the zealous anality that runs rampant in this community. Certainly my roommates have habits that annoy me, but living with them eases the frustration. Of course, it still drives me batty when they don't rinse my razor, and it's clogged with hair. Outside my room, however, I have less tolerance, less compassion...
...girls who don't grow up to be Olympic champions, there is still an important message from Saturday's competition. The skating beauties who have won golds in the past--in part by pandering to the public's wish for a stereotype, be it elegant, cute, or sexy-have chosen careers consistent with their stage images. Peggy Fleming filmed commercials for Trident gum before moving on to sportscasting; Dorothy Hamill inspired a national hairstyle and represented a shampoo company; Katerina Witt is about to enter a career in acting and modeling. But things will be different for 1988's bronze...
...Leno was chosen by the Lampoon staff to receive the award, "for lifetime acheivement in comedy...He has established himself as the leading stand-up comedian. And everyone likes his giant chin," said David S. Cohen '88, outgoing president of the Lampoon...
...that year, Lynch orally approved a payment of $1 million to Wallach's law firm as its part of a $1.74 million out-of-court settlement won by the firm for two girls who had been badly burned in a tent fire. The following January Lynch was chosen to become a federal district judge...
...result, the two nominees may be chosen not because of such peripheral factors as media-fueled momentum but because they did the best at winning delegates from all corners of the country. Not only would this widen the process of groping toward a post-Reagan consensus, it would also be the best way to reduce the tribalism and factionalism that now infect both parties...