Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Golan also quoted the hijackers as saying they chose Israel for asylum because they knew Israel and the Soviet Union lacked diplomatic ties and they counted on the fact that Israel would not hand them over...
When President Reagan chose Lauro Cavazos to replace William Bennett as Secretary of Education last summer, Washington pundits dismissed the move as a political maneuver. A sixth-generation Texan and a highly visible Hispanic American, Cavazos seemed tailor-made to help Republican presidential nominee George Bush woo the Hispanic vote in the candidate's electorally rich adopted home state. Last week, when President-elect Bush announced that he would retain Cavazos as head of the department, some educators made similar remarks. "It was an easy decision for Bush," says Donna Shalala, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Madison...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan--Benazir Bhutto '73 became the first woman to lead a Moslem nation when the president chose her yesterday to be prime minister, the post her father held when he was deposed and hanged a decade...
...staff chose this play because "it's beautiful, for one thing," Melvin said. The play is a fable with puppets and exotic characters. One of Japan's premiere designers, Setsu Asakura, created the set, costumes and puppets used in the play, she said...
Like many Californians in the fast lane, Julie Kulas believes that the good life calls for a sleek and stylish car. So when the Los Angeles banker bought a new auto two years ago, she chose a $20,000 Porsche. That was the easy part. When she went shopping for auto insurance, two companies refused to insure the sports car. Stunned by their rejection, Kulas wound up with a firm that charges $4,600 a year to insure the Porsche and her husband's BMW. Says she: "This is outrageous. We're being penalized just because we have nice cars...