Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...named Minister of Political Affairs and oversaw national security and foreign relations. In 1985 he became second-in-command, after Chun, of the ruling Democratic Justice Party. By early this year, after rivals resigned from the government amid a police-brutality scandal, Roh was poised to become Chun's chosen successor...
...Commerce. First there was the 1967 Summer of Love, with its easy exchange of drugs and sex in Haight-Ashbury. Then in 1973 came the racially motivated Zebra killings; Agnos, who was seriously wounded after leaving a neighborhood political meeting, was one of the gunman's 18 randomly chosen victims. Next followed the kidnaping of Newspaper Heiress Patty Hearst and the 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, to which Jim Jones had moved his cult followers from a "people's temple" in the center of San Francisco...
...gather the most informed opinion possible on the outlook, TIME last week conducted its own survey of 17 leading forecasters. They were chosen for their reputations and the accuracy of their past predictions. The economists represent academia, the financial community and business, and include several experts from Europe and Japan...
...last year after spending eight years dealing with black African affairs for the State Department. His appointment was regarded by many whites as a symbolic snub and by blacks as insulting tokenism. Perkins has responded by cultivating a low profile, then discarding it at strategic intervals to issue carefully chosen shots...
Andrew P. Goldfarb '89, Lori E. Lesser '88, Eric M. Mindich '88 and Brenda J. Walker '88 of Harvard last month joined 200 other participants at the 13th annual "Business Tomorrow Conference" conference in Chicago. The four were chosen from a pool of 2000 applicants to represent Harvard at the conference, which was sponsored by Princeton's Foundation for Student Communicaion...