Word: chosen
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Today, there is no Stalin to give orders. If a nation is isolated from the international community now, it is either because the country is simply too weak to meet international standards or because its leaders have chosen willfully to disregard those standards...
FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS The first popularly chosen parliament was elected...
...sculptures, drawings--even weavings--to U.S. ambassadors who want to spruce up their residences and look tasteful and patriotic. Through agreements with an array of institutions, artists and collectors, the program encourages ambassadors to become their own art dealers, selecting works that strike their aesthetic fancy. Among the most chosen artists in the diplomatic service: Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, Edward Hopper, Mark Rothko, Jacob Lawrence, Morris Louis, Andrew Wyeth, Robert Rauschenberg, Dale Chihuly and Helen Frankenthaler. Says director Roselyne Swig: "Our ambassadors see the works as an invaluable outreach tool...
...series of questions assessing everything from his personal history to his culpability and intent in the Oklahoma bombing. They had voted on an excruciatingly long list of factors to reach their final choice: Life or death. In the end, the jury, standing one by one, affirmed that they had chosen the ultimate penalty: death by lethal injection. As McVeigh was escorted from the courtroom after the verdict, he turned to his family and appeared to mouth the words ?it?s all right.? He then made the peace sign. Having been sentenced to death for the murders of eight federal employees...
...pleases. The peace dividend has allowed us to live abroad more often and for longer than any other generation. Technoliths like Microsoft and Nike are earning their spectacular growth on the backs of twentysomething executives who work overseas and are fighting not only for the cause of their chosen company but also to propagate a belief system that has served us well. It is a pragmatic idealism as intense as the fire that sent Peace Corps workers abroad in the 1960s. The globalized, interconnected economy we are helping create is likely to be our best insurance of a peaceful world...