Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stand up to such challenges as trillion-dollar debt and explosive foreign entanglements. His proposed remedies go beyond familiar ideas like repeal of the Constitution's prohibition against members of Congress serving in the Cabinet to far-out notions like the establishment of a council of "100 notable persons" chosen by the President to serve for life and review legislation...
Does the modern state of Israel fulfill God's biblical promise, which bestowed the Holy Land upon the Chosen People? That question has been the source of considerable spiritual and political debate among Christians ever since Israel was founded in 1948. The problem came to the fore again last week in Biloxi, Miss., for 665 delegates to the national assembly of the 3 million-member Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The Israel issue led to a dispute that stirred passions over six days before the assembly finally approved an eight-page statement. The document is probably the most amicable declaration...
There is speculation in many quarters that Ms. Fingerman was chosen out of concern that women were under-represented among the speeches. Of this is true, I can only protest more vehemently at the judgment of the judges...
...Steel, president of production at Paramount, recalls that Mamet's first draft was an "outline, very sparse." How sparse? Capone was hardly in it. To flesh out Mamet's bare-bones script, Steel and her boss Ned Tanen wanted De Palma. "In the past," she says, "Brian hasn't chosen the material that was worthy of him and that he was worthy of. He was making homages to Alfred Hitchcock. This one is a homage to Brian De Palma -- he felt it instead of directing it. With this picture he became a mensch." It surely marked a ! change from...
...minor detail that an indiscreet drive by Bird had given the Pistons the ball in the first place. Then last week in the finals, when he almost pulled out a critical Laker game with his dramatic three-pointer, the sequence that immediately preceded it -- including an especially ill-chosen shot and an almost unbelievably sloppy pass -- was forgotten...