Word: chosen
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...member and former co-coordinator Jeanne L. Kwong '96 explained that this center's use of anonymous testing was one reason it was chosen as the beneficiary...
...film tells the story of Camille (Pascale Bussieres), a professor at a Protestant college who is engaged to Martin (Henry Czerny), a trusted minister and fellow professor. While Camille and Martin have been involved for three years, their relationship is put under strain when they are chosen as candidates for co-chaplaincy of the college. As "career Christians" they are urged to get married so that their professional union will be free from ethical reproach...
Instead--and we have been saying this until we're blue in the face--it should adopt a policy of carefully-chosen, lower-key, sure successes in order to slowly build its credibility and standing in the eyes of students. Running all sorts of circuses may look like a good idea for a new administration eager to make a splash, but the council has an uncanny talent for ending up a wet blanket...
...country. To ensure continued profits from the oil industry, the military government of Nigeria instituted a crackdown resulting in the deaths of over 2,000 of Saro-Wiwa's tribes people. In 1993, during the transition from military to civil government, Abacha imprisoned Chief Moshood Abiola, the democratically chosen president, declaring the election invalid...
...setting was chosen, though, precisely to create such frustration, and out of it has come progress. Indeed, by week's end things had moved so far forward that all three Balkan Presidents were almost ready to take the step of actually signing a draft agreement. Almost. "We are inches away," said a frustrated U.S. official, just before the three Presidents, who had been repeatedly coaxed "to the edge''of the table, once again backed off. Their skittishness did not stem only from a concern that they may get a better deal; the "Rabin effect," as Dayton insiders call it, took...