Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believed that Kosygin, out of self-preservation, deliberately chose to avoid the many intrigues and power plays in the Kremlin. Later on, Brezhnev pushed him still further aside, and several times Kosygin submitted his resignation to the Politburo. Although there was little rapport between the two men, Brezhnev turned these offers down and continued to pretend respect for Kosygin while in fact ignoring his views more and more. Once Brezhnev took command of foreign affairs, he edged Kosygin aside altogether and moved Gromyko from the role of mentor and confidant to that of co-architect...
...students to say "we chose this place" is psychologically important for house spirit. The vast majority of students are where they want to be and this lends imn.casurably to personality and tradition in the Houses. The character of a house depends heavily upon factors other than how students are assigned to it, particularly administrative and structural factors. Kirkland House sports more than just athletes since the arrival of its newest Masters the athletes are still there. but so too are Phi Beta kappas and Rhodes scholars. The reconstruction at the Radclific Quadrangle doubtless will make those Houses very attractive...
...Union promptly denounced the mayor's decree as an unconstitutional restraint on personal freedom. Scoffed Koch: "Does this make any sense? Do people have a right to simply go out, if they are not in full possession of their faculties, and kill themselves?" In fact, few of the homeless chose to be out in the cold. On the first night of the sweep, the police picked up only 14 street people, two of whom went against their will. One, a woman of 66, protested that she was "waiting for a ship to take me back to Panama." The other said...
Exactly, says the architect, Helmut Jahn: "Technically, spatially, functionally and symbolically, this is something new." That was what Illinois Governor James R. Thompson wanted when he ordered the building in 1979 as a workplace for some 3,000 state employees. Thompson, who chose the design from three offered by Jahn, has already moved his Chicago office there, although the $172 million structure does not officially open until May. "It was a lot of money and a radical design," says Thompson. "But I felt that sometimes only government can afford to take the chance to do something really different...
...calls his promise to provide health care services to any woman of any denomination who chose birth for her child over abortion a way to make his stand a concrete policy. It is yet unclear, however, exactly how Law intends to finance the health care and how he intends to administer such an ambitious program...