Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...draw of pre-professionalism skews the consciousness of the new generation. Trapped in a goal-oriented society, today's would-be Renaissance Man often sacrifices perspective for high-level performance in a chosen field...
...reform until after next year's Summer Olympics in Seoul. That move was effusively endorsed by Roh, a classmate of Chun's at South Korea's military academy and a fellow ex- army general. Paying tribute to Chun's "keen perception of history," Roh on June 10 was formally chosen as the Democratic Justice Party's candidate for President in a national election set for later this year. It was Roh's nomination ceremony, which many South Koreans viewed as an arrogant attempt to push a Chun crony into the presidency, that touched off the largest protests...
...Shackley denies any wrongdoing in the Iran-contra affair. "I have had nothing to do with what Secord has chosen to call 'the enterprise,' " Shackley told TIME last week. "I have had nothing to do with North." Nonetheless, North's projects freely used private operators. Secord, for example, retained the services of American National Management Corp. to fly supplies to the contras in Nicaragua. That company was founded and run by Colonel Richard Gadd, a retired Air Force cargo-plane pilot who was a longtime associate of Secord's. Gadd had also worked for the U.S. Army Special Operations Forces...
...also lack any power in disciplining their peers. The 25-man Administrative Board, which will decide the majority of disciplinary cases each year, doesn't even have one student member, in contrast to many other schools where undergraduates often play important roles in such decisions. Although students will be chosen by lot to serve on the new Judicial Board, it is likely that the Board will not examine many cases, and when it does, will use students to legitimize to politically-explosive decisions...
...society we have chosen to giveresponsibility and power to the elected official,"says Thornburgh. "While skill is needed toformulate and carry out policy by non-electedpeople, the elected official is more important...