Word: chosen
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...overseers were chosen in an election by graduates of Harvard's nine faculties. Each will serve a six-year term on the 30 member board, which advises President Neil L. Rudenstine and forms committees to watch over the workings of the University...
...German hooligans are at large in France, many remaining in Lens, where they battered a French policeman into a coma Sunday. If this convergence of soccer's worst louts seems coincidental, it ain't: A leaked French intelligence service memo, published Wednesday in Le Monde, says the Germans have chosen the spot "to battle for the title of 'hardest hooligans in Europe' with their English enemies...
...large accounting and consulting firm, almost 70% reported that they were having trouble finding skilled workers. More than a quarter were decreasing growth estimates, delaying or canceling expansion plans and overhiring--or trying to--in anticipation of a still tighter job market. Bear in mind that these companies were chosen for the survey because over the past five years they had been among the fastest-growing businesses in the country...
...chosen as Miss America, Hancock saidshe will take a year off from Harvard. MissAmerica travels about 20,000 miles around thecountry during her tenure...
...authors, Michelle Fine and Lois Weis, document hundreds of interviews of young adults in the age range of the twenties to early thirties. The interviews occur in Jersey City and Buffalo, cities chosen because of the de-industrialization that has displaced large segments of the working class since the 1970s. For these Gen Xers, the problems of the inner city go far deeper than a slim section of jobs in the want ads. Interviewees consistently say that the sense of community, the thread that once held urban cities together, has frayed and, in some cases, split altogether. They talk about...