Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...individuals chosen for harassment and arrest were all professors and teachers at an informal home-based Baha'i university, which had come into existence because the Iranian government had barred Baha'is from the country's universities since the 1979 revolution solely because of their religious beliefs...
...first the crop doesn't sell, journalists find the answer in volume: Keep giving more, and then more. These journalists do not lie; they simply overflow the media with truth about the chosen journalistic cash crop. They inform some more, recast the characters, take new polls and provide new interpretations to ponder. After a while, the news becomes newsworthy, and the media has raised enough content to match the form it has provided. Then it starts to report on its own successful raising of such a spectacle: Has the Media Gone Too Far? they ask themselves...
...been really striking how the Democrats, in the minority and with their President facing impeachment, have handed Republicans almost all the losses in the budget fight," says TIME congressional correspondent James Carney. "Republicans have chosen compromise rather than risk the fallout of another shutdown." Dick Gephardt got to talk about saving the children, the teachers and other warm political fuzzies -- he was in such a good mood he thanked Al Gore. Republicans, despite all those Congressional seats, were strangely talking about what they had managed to save...
...group was instructed in the foxtrot, the rumba and the swing. The dances were chosen to represent three different styles of ballroom dancing. The foxtrot is one of the five standard dances, the rumba is one of the five Latin dances and the swing is a social dance not performed in competition...
...those who grew up believing in Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his brand of pragmatism [VIEWPOINT, Sept. 21]. Despite his critics, I have chosen to support Mahathir's unorthodox economic policies. Why? Because he has me convinced that he will ultimately be proved right...