Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Waren said Stoll's chosen form of writing--the expose--also shaped his conclusions about Menchu...
...evade these issues, some in Congress have chosen to attach a mystical significance to the steel industry, exalting it above all others. However, the historical prominence of an industry should have little bearing on current policy. Rep. Dennis Kucinivich (D-Ohio) compared the quota to administration efforts to open Europe's markets to bananas, but his arguments at times verged on the absurd: "Bananas did not build America. Steel did...We cannot build a tank with a banana, we cannot build a plane with a banana, we cannot build ships with a banana. We did not build cars with bananas...
...much, was amazingly introspective about his hedonistic life. He said he thought his legacy would be having shown "that there's another ethical way of living your life without being married." So I asked him if he thought his was a life well lived. Had he chosen the right American Dream--the mansion and the babes--or should he have chosen the suburban house and the nuclear family? "This is better," he said without hesitation. "Because you're not living your life through other people...
...should be studied. Oregon?s doctor-assisted suicide law provides a carefully calibrated decision mechanism ?that is safe, reasonable and ethical,? says Gorman. No one has rushed, or was rushed, to die in the year since the Oregon law went into effect; so far, 15 terminally ill patients have chosen to die. Few really know whether Dr. Kevorkian?s freelance work involved a similar, careful deliberative process...
...goal in choosing new members is to assemble a diverse group of students from different backgrounds of different races, and of both sexes. "Kind of the opposite of final clubs," says one Harvard freshman proctor who was a member of a secret society. The group of 15 is simply chosen--there is no "rush" or initiation process. They pay no dues or fees during their year as members; all funding comes from alumni of the societies...