Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because many students attempted to second-guessthe lottery system last year, College officialssaid they have chosen to emphasize the mechanicsof the lottery system in their presentations tofreshmen on the house selection process...
After three years the Mulroney government has yet to demonstrate it can ! effectively lead the country, run the government or keep its promises to curb the kind of corruption that helped finish off the Liberals. Mulroney, 47, has surrounded himself with friends chosen for loyalty rather than expertise. He has never developed or articulated a national agenda for Canada or shown himself to have a tight grip on the reins of government. Although Canada's growth rate of 3.3% for the past two years is second only to that of Japan, the government has problems. Time after time, major decisions...
...that this album is a passport to alien territory. The music -- which includes Jerry Harrison's sinister Man with a Gun, the roof-raising African rouser High Life by Sonny Okosun and a Jamaican-flavored remake of the rock war-horse Wild Thing by Sister Carol -- is so shrewdly chosen and sequenced that it becomes an experience on its own, inflected by the film's moods but not dependent on them. Something Wild is one of the best uses of contemporary music since Mean Streets, but, whether as compilation or accompaniment to some movie in your own head...
...council is the representative body of the student community. In condemning the council's action, the majority opinion summarily dismisses what is, in fact, a fairly (if not always prudently) elected student government. For better or worse, we have chosen council members for the kind of role the Corporation is now calling on them to perform...
...chose Harvard for its "all-around environment." And Harvard, in turn, has chosen him as a home-crowd favorite...