Word: chosen
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...percent of the vote. Yet when the Democrats walk triumphantly back into the ruling Legco -- where they were turfed out last July -- they'll find themselves with a toothless 13 percent of the seats. Thanks to Beijing's system of "functional" constituencies, two-thirds of the assembly was chosen by fewer than a hundred thousand "professional" voters...
Strober's speech, the RPPI's fourth annual lecture on feminist economics, examined divorce settlements and corresponding entitlements to women who have chosen to manage households while their husbands filled the role of the breadwinner...
According to the Affirmative Action Coalition, organizers of yesterday's protest, Royce Hall was chosen specifically for its symbolic meaning as one of the original buildings on campus. Royce was also the site of Carnesale's inauguration last Friday...
...terminal metastatic breast cancer. Nocera wants to try Herceptin, an anticancer drug now in clinical trials. But Herceptin is expensive, and the manufacturer, Genentech, isn't making much beyond what it needs for testing. It currently gives the extra Herceptin to a limited number of women, chosen at random by a computer, and Nocera's number hasn't come up yet. "My fear," she says, "is that it's all about money and that these companies don't need us if we don't meet their criteria...
...January, and is holding the final seven episodes until June and July, when most of its fans will be at summer camp. Don't expect much hoopla for the two-part finale, in which the newly engaged Steve Urkel, once TV's favorite nerd, is chosen to fly on the space shuttle, does a gravitational experiment that fouls up the mission and gets stranded in space--a crisis dubbed by TV news "Nerd Watch...