Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...president has told us he will veto this bill because he won't accept language that allows poor rape and incest victims access to abortions," he said. "I'm sorry the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, has chosen to veto this bill...and thereby cause enormous additional suffering for some of the world's most unfortunate and powerless victims...
...society as wealthy as ours has a responsibility to see that no one goes without affordable housing. In this sense, advocates of rent control are pursuing a noble goal. Unfortunately, they've chosen about the most inefficient means possible to get there...
Still, Laura Hastings decided to enroll at Harvard before her parents became North House masters, but says that she might have chosen a different college had she known that her parents were going to accept the position...
...think I was chosen because Ed Cyr needs an uplift in his campaign and he wants to define himself as being against me," Walsh said...
...Bobbie Ann Mason, is a direct, even artless, projection of this healing spirit. There is nothing metaphoric about the empty space left in her life by the war; her father was killed in Viet Nam before she could know him. Her mother having remarried and moved away, Samantha has chosen to stay behind and share the tumbledown family home in Hopewell, Ky., with her uncle Emmett (Bruce Willis), a veteran damaged by the war in some way he refuses to name. Now in the summer after her high school graduation, she comes upon the letters her dad wrote from...