Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rose Bird no doubt relished the prospect. Had the voters obliged, Bird, the first woman to serve as her state's chief justice, would have been swearing in the nation's first elected black Governor, California's Thomas Bradley, on Jan. 3. Instead the voters chose George Deukmejian three weeks ago, and Democrat Bird may not even be asked to perform her traditional inaugural role. For Deukmejian, now the state's Republican attorney general, is an unrelenting Bird critic determined to reverse what he sees as the excessive liberalism of the chief and her court...
...November of 1975, family members and library corporation officers, weary of public criticism and anxious for the start of construction, chose the Columbia Point, Dorchester, site for the library, museum, and archives complex even though JFK himself had favored a Harvard location...
Workers said this week they are unsure whether they will meet the 1984 deadline. "We're messing everything up bad," said one worker who chose to remain anonymous "We're about eight years behind schedule," he added jokingly...
...with a season of eligibility left over from his ill-bated sophomore year, Cash chose to take a leave of absence last spring and return this fall to play an additional year...
Some have speculated that Helms' ambitions extends beyond his state borders, and with the Hunt threat, he may well make a 1984 bid for the vice-presidency or even the presidency. In fact, if he so chose. Helms could probably head a third party ticket of disgruntled ultra-conservatives, since his political organization already packs the necessary money and shadow structure...