Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...masters also suggested ending what itcalled a three-year-old "experiment" of givingfreshmen their lottery numbers before requiringthem to list their top three house choices. Priorto 1986, students chose their roommates andselected houses before entering the lottery...
When it came time to pick a running mate, Bush chose a young, vacuous senator, whose only qualification seems to be his unerring toeing of the reactionary line. Born to enormous wealth and helped by nepotism every step of the way, Senator Dan Quayle personifies what has come to be known as the Me Generation...
George Bush says that he chose Quayle because he was a younger image of himself. He is right. Bush may have more experience and more titles that his running mate, but his impact has been obscure when it has not been dangerous...
There are still distortions in his map, both at the equator and at the poles, depending upon the distance from 38 degrees north or 38 degrees south, which he chose as his standard parallels. "Only at these latitudes are the size and shape relationships accurate, as they are on the globe," says Robinson. To convey a sense of roundness, the map has been given curved sides. The Geographic Society's new map, like its predecessor, is centered on Europe, in part because focusing on the U.S. would divide the Asian landmass. The result, declares Garver, is "the best balance available...
...time college football chose its national champion the way the NFL chooses its Super Bowl winner-on the field...