Word: choses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Esquith says he thinks people chose to spend their break doing demolition work because "it was cheap and you're helping people...
...magistrates and ministers, the Board of Overseers remained the dominant governing board until 1686, when it was temporarily suspended by a change in government.=board of external trustees, connected with the living organism of the University only through the President.=to co-opt whomsoever it chose.=collegial=The overseers should always hold toward the corporation an attitude of suspicious vigilance.=as good as rejected.<= The opposition between the two governing boards finally broke when the corporation proved to have the stronger will, standing by its nominee. The overseers relented. No one remained to stand up to the corporation...
HSPN officials narrowed the field to seven finalists after applications were submitted in early March. Each finalist was then interviewed before officials chose the recipients...
...like Xiu Xiu: both abandoned by the government hierarchy and subject to its whim. "Every day we worried that our equipment would be confiscated and that the film negative would never get out of China. But fortunately nobody came to look for us." Unlike Xiu Xiu, of course, Chen chose these conditions on her own terms: she sent herself down. "Hardship is the romantic part of filmmaking," she says. "You endure for a few months, then you go home...
...Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the leading dissident of Myanmar, formerly Burma; of prostate cancer; in Oxford. Myanmar's military junta refused to allow the dying Aris to visit his wife, whom he had not seen since 1995. Fearful the junta would bar her return, she chose not to leave her country...