Word: chosen
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According to Mueller, now retired, Howard was a more than able player. In his senior year he copped the Most Valuable Player for his district. "He was big, very mobile, a good jumper and shooter," Mueller recalls. Had he chosen to aim for professional ball, his coach says, "he would have given it a good...
Assessment often encourages colleges to reevaluate their educational goals. As a result, many institutions no longer consider absolute levels of knowledge among graduates as important as intellectual "value-added" by the university, said Light, who was chosen to head the seminar because of his expertise in program evaluation...
...enter the world of adulthood. I'll probably buy a house, get a car and maybe even start paying taxes. Now, my Harvard education has taught me to take seriously such important decisions, to analyze the benefits of all my options. Yet, among a person's well-chosen commodities, there is one large investment that is usually made haphazardly. Beer...
...Chosen from a group of 190 applicants, the fellows, all non-tenured junior faculty members at colleges across the country, were invited to spend next year teaching and researching here...
Work for Begun consisted of knotting the rope into cargo nets, a job chosen mainly for its monotony. "The norm was eight nets a day, and those who met the norm might get one or two rubles a month to spend on sugar or fat from the prison store." Begun says he never made more than one net a day. "To do no work at all is extremely provocative, and punishment is severe. To do a single net is another matter. I did only one a day as a matter of principle...