Word: chosen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...country at home and abroad. Foreign banks have balked at extending new loans to keep the economy afloat. To make matters worse, with national elections 18 months away, the scramble to succeed President Miguel de la Madrid threatens to paralyze his government until a new President is chosen...
While many experts on South Africa have given up hope for a peaceful solution to the country's problems, Perkins has not. He tells his staff that his chosen role is to encourage all sectors of society to talk to one another. A resolution of South Africa's troubles will take a long time, he says. Americans are too impatient for quick fixes and should learn to plan and work for the long haul...
Although Sullivan claimed to have chosen the committee off the top of his head, David F. Noonan, the Mayor's executive assistant, said Sullivan made his choices carefully...
...broadcast from the U.S.S.R. (the Today show's Bryant Gumbel, for example, spent a week there in 1984), he and his crew were given the most unfettered access to average Soviet citizens since Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness, took hold. Studio audiences were chosen at random by Donahue staffers (accompanied by a Soviet escort) from grocery stores, movie houses, skating ponds and other locations around Moscow, and no restrictions were placed on the questions asked. Donahue also became the first Western journalist to visit Chernobyl since the nuclear accident there last spring. His crew...
...very likely that it was an accident, or a turn of fate that I was chosen," Lindauer said. "Bob Rivers, the record producer, told me that my stuff was real 'crash, bang, boom,' and said that was what they were looking for," he said. He refused to state how much money he will receive for the video...