Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tomorrow and As the World Turns) and Jon Murray, both in their 40s, came up with -- The Real World -- was a hip complement to the channel's usual diet of music videos. Now in its fourth season, the documentary series follows the lives of six or seven carefully chosen young strangers, brought together to live for several months in a home seemingly decorated from a Pottery Barn catalog. The cast members and locales change each year, but the formula doesn't. The producers assemble distinctive and contrasting personalities -- the current season, set in London, pits Neil, a bookish, anti-American...
...does everyone always think education is the panacea for poverty? My husband and I attended private schools and colleges, and we hold master's degrees. We have been employed in our chosen fields since graduation. Come bill time, however, we find ourselves sending partial payments as a stalling tactic. To avoid the high cost of day care-an expense our combined earnings couldn't begin to cover-we work opposite shifts. Our parents have even taken over our car payments. We often marvel at the fact that two well-educated white-collar workers like ourselves are worse off financially than...
...jury was chosen for the trial of Susan Smith, the South Carolina mother accused of drowning her two sons in a car last year. The judge in the case found her competent to stand trial, following the recommendation of a state psychiatrist, despite the expert's opinion that Smith is suicidal and could try to sabotage her defense if she takes the stand. The prosecution seeks the death penalty and has reportedly denied a defense offer of 30 years in prison...
...raid planners had chosen a direct assault in part because they believed Koresh never left the Branch Davidian compound, and thus could never be isolated from his followers. But Koresh did leave the compound--several times in late 1992 and only weeks before the February 1993 raid. ATF just never knew it. The report blamed this on its "failure to establish an effective intelligence operation...
...panel will decide which finalists will receive a $100,000 grant to help their program. Fifteen of the finalists who were chosen for their unusual creativity in addressing public needs, will receiver the large grants, while the remaining 15 will receive grants...