Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bailyn's work was chosen over two biographies, "Eisenhower: at War, 1943-1945" by David E. Eisenhower and "Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference" by David J. Garrow...
Respectable pimps were forced by the law to wander as outcasts, calling out their wares nervously as they paced the lonely city streets: "Pot. Coke, Watches, Babies, Mescaline..." Customers interested in procuring a baby followed the pimps to dark abandoned buildings where lines of women waited to be chosen according to the specific genetic qualities desired by patrons. Customers indicated their choice, left a little sperm, and returned nine months later to pick-up their custom-made babies from the pimp...
...meeting at La Bandera, the Pope visited Santiago's archdiocesan headquarters, where he met behind closed doors with church bishops and repeated his hope for free elections "in the not too distant future." At present the government has scheduled a plebiscite for 1989 to approve a presidential candidate chosen by the military. Those seeking a clue to the Pope's strategy found it during his meeting with the bishops. In a quiet dig at Pinochet's rule, he told them that "every nation has the right of self- determination" but noted that "it is also necessary that respect for human...
Mahe says the contest in either party could be wide open even after March 8 -- the mega-Tuesday that has at least 16 primaries and caucuses -- if no one has captured 40% of the delegates chosen up to that point. "Everyone in the race will be out of money," Mahe predicts, "fatigued, with fatigued staffs, fatigued messages." So there could be an opening for a classy contender -- Howard Baker or (if Bush collapses) James Baker on the Republican side, Cuomo or someone like New Jersey's Senator Bill Bradley on the Democratic side -- to ride in from the sidelines...
...spot in the contest finals, Rhythm Method first was chosen along with three other area bands from among 150 entries to compete last Friday night in the regional semifinals...