Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with 54% of the vote, the U.S. came under intense pressure from Jewish groups to place Waldheim's name on its "watch list" of some 40,000 suspected war criminals, convicts, deportees and others who are unwelcome in the U.S. To avoid interfering with the Austrian elections, Washington chose to conduct its own meticulous investigation, including the examination by a Justice Department team of previously unavailable records in the Yugoslav war archives. The probe gave careful scrutiny to material submitted on half a dozen occasions by Waldheim in his defense. In the end, the effort served only to turn...
...planning the train, Japanese engineers chose superconducting magnets ( because for a given input of electricity they generate more intense magnetic fields -- and thus greater lifting and propulsion power -- than conventional electromagnets. The drawback: the liquid-helium coolant needed for the superconducting magnets is expensive, and a heavy compressor is required in each coach to reliquefy the evaporating helium. That is why maglev engineers are excited by the idea of the new high-temperature superconductors, which would use considerably less expensive liquid nitrogen as a coolant and require far smaller compressors. The developments of the past few months, says Research Chief...
Neil A. Mooney '88 recently transferred into North. He transferred, he says, "because all of my friends are here." Mooney says freshman year he had planned to block with a large group of friends who wanted Kirkland. At the last minute, Mooney and his roommate chose not to block with the high-risk group and selected Eliot. While the two got into Eliot, all their friends moved to the Quad...
...student-faculty committee chose the Commencement speakers from a group of more than 12 applicants, Putnam said...
...Voters chose 496 National Assembly representatives from among 829 candidates. Instead of being handpicked by top party officials, many candidates were selected by grass-roots organizations at public meetings, where disastrous economic policies that have made Viet Nam one of the world's poorest countries were widely criticized. Indeed, Nguyen Van Linh, 74, the Communist Party chairman who took office last December, has called for more democratic reforms and instituted free-market innovations to spur the economy...