Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gregorian prepares to take the top post at Brown in April, he is rarely referred to as a fundraiser. Instead those who chose him and those who work with him note that he is warm and affable, an Armenian, Beiruteducated scholar passionately interested in Middle Eastern history. To fellow scholars he is known as the man who speaks seven languages and who at the age of 54 has received national teaching awards in three countries...
...available in developing countries, such as India and Thailand, and in the Communist world (Poland has opened five hospices). But no country has embraced the concept as widely as the U.S., which has 1,679 hospice programs. Last year 172,000 Americans, some 90% of them suffering from cancer, chose hospice care for their final days. AIDS sufferers are also finding that the hospice's sympathetic aura can ease them through the last days of their debilitating illness...
...boys of Viet Nam fought a terrible and vicious war . . . It was the unpampered boys of the working class who picked up the rifles and went on the march . . . They chose to believe and answer the call of duty...
...Quayle, "The thing that's important is ((that)) he didn't go to Canada." That is indeed an important distinction, but not in the way Bush Jr. seems to think. Those who went to Canada knew they were making a fundamental life choice. They, along with those who chose conscientious objection or outright draft resistance and jail, acted because they opposed the war. This may have been right or wrong, but it was a serious moral decision with serious moral consequences. The National Guard, by contrast, was a way to avoid Viet Nam and the moral consequences at the same...
Twenty-five years ago, J.F. Powers reached a summit in his literary career and chose that moment to make a surprising announcement. After building a quietly distinguished reputation with two collections of stories, Prince of Darkness (1947) and The Presence of Grace (1956), he had just won the National Book Award for his 1962 novel Morte D'Urban. In the hubbub after his prize, Powers dropped his revelation. His next novel, he told reporters, would not have a priest...