Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eliminating it is a very poor idea," says Alex M. Fung '98. "I'm undecided on many courses at the beginning of the week. If I hadn't shopped, I would have actually chosen two classes I didn't enjoy very much...
Perhaps the United Nations could have chosen a worse host than China, but participants at the Fourth World Conference on Women were hard pressed last week to think of one. As the official U.N. event opened in Beijing, more than 30,000 delegates to a parallel, nongovernmental conclave in the remote northern suburb of Huairou were still contending with all manner of inadequacies and harassments. Just why China should have put on such an unseemly display for all the world to see was a consuming puzzle, but at least the International Olympic Committee had cause for relief. Two years...
...with some overt stage management, the U.S. accomplished it--literally. When the foreign ministers of Bosnia, Croatia and Serb-led Yugoslavia arrived at the American mission in Geneva last Friday, they were ushered into a modest conference room and seated at a small round table that was purposely chosen by the Americans for the intimacy it would create. Things were so cramped that the ministers and their hosts sat almost knee to knee. After seven hours, they emerged with a one-page agreement on basic principles that U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, the key mediator, called "an important...
...declined, however, to predict when a new chief will be chosen because "for an appointment which touches all parts of the campus as this one does, I would prefer to not feel or not have the community feel it is operating under a specific deadline...
What a difference a year makes; Hu's star goes unrecognized no longer. Both Bob Griese's College Football Yearbook and Football News have chosen Hu preseason All-Ivy. When people ask about the team's leaders his name is the third or fourth mentioned...