Word: chosenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parties that have been promoting the anti-government campaign. Their demands include a return to the parliamentary system under which Pakistan was ruled before Ayub's bloodless takeover in 1958 and also the abolition of the present presidential election system. Within that Ayub-inspired framework, the President is chosen by 120,000 popularly elected "basic democrats." The opposition charges that the system is susceptible to government patronage and pressure and thus tends to perpetuate Ayub's rule. If it is not abolished, the eight parties plan to boycott basic democrat elections scheduled for late this year...
What Blue Cross will reimburse varies from state to state, and within states, according to what plan the subscribing group has chosen. Some Blue Cross plans in the West cover in-hospital doctors' bills, a function generally reserved in the East for Blue Shield. Whatever its limitations, Blue Cross was such a success that commercial insurance companies soon tried to emulate...
...monthly payments of $135; if he signed a similar mortgage now, he would commonly have to pay $144. Last week a subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph issued a Triple-A bond with a 7% interest rate, but found few takers even at that rich yield. New York City has chosen to postpone some bond offerings altogether rather than pay so much for money. The nation's banks are expected to increase their loans by only $25 billion this year (to $418 billion), compared with last year's record expansion of $39 billion...
...Growing numbers of students"-- spurred by reasons "largely compounded of the abhorrence of war and impatience with the slow processes of government" in solving social problems--"have chosen to exercise their frustration in the academic arena in insufficient awareness of what a university properly...
There are many types of phobia. According to Dr. Baker, these particular three were chosen because they have been eliminated by clinical treatment in the past. So far, 70 people have signed up for therapy in public speaking. The respondents for claustrophobia and acrophobia have been fewer, and these programs may be temporarily deferred. Treatment for the phobia consists of twice-weekly sessions which last for two months...