Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once had a conversation with a Korean girl who verbally assaulted me for "repudiating" my heritage because I had chosen to write for a newspaper, not major in math or science, and not attend Korean student meetings. In a sense she was right, because those students who choose to pursue a more mainstream four years here end up leaving much of their ethnic heritage behind. People who want to become mainstream do not want to appear different to their peers, so they don't pursue ethnic contacts or activities...
...White House was also miffed by word that Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, the Judiciary Committee chairman and Democratic presidential hopeful, intends to lead the fight against the conservative Bork -- exploiting a chance to win favor among liberal groups in a well-publicized setting. Biden, grumbled Fitzwater, has chosen to "politicize the hearings." Shocking...
...considered the model of the fast-track Navy officer. His superiors seem to have marked him early as a potential Chief of Naval Operations -- a position that was long thought to be Poindexter's own goal -- and to have carefully groomed him for the job through a judiciously chosen mixture of Washington assignments and sea-duty posts...
Poindexter graduated in 1958 first in his class academically and was chosen brigade commander, signifying that he rated first in leadership ability as well, an extremely rare double honor. After a year at sea, he was selected for a scholarship program of advanced study in science. He chose nuclear physics at Caltech, even though he had taken only a single physics course at Annapolis. "The Navy's chief science adviser told me to scale back, saying, 'You'll never make it,' " Poindexter said in an interview with TIME last year. "But I thought I was very good, and nothing...
...billion in 1974, actually topped the 5 billion mark, though demographers suspect it happened in July. Zagreb was picked as the location by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities largely because U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar happened to be in that city when the chosen day rolled around. In a speech marking the occasion, Perez de Cuellar drew attention to the fact that 90% of this year's 120 million births will occur in countries where food, health services and education are inadequate...