Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, the class was Moral Reasoning 11--Ethics. I sincerely hope that the 50 per cent of the class who voted for their convenience without any consideration for the most important beliefs of their classmates, chose to take ethics because they felt they needed them, as indeed they do, and that this self-selected group of selfish individuals is not characteristic of the entire University. I also hope that by the end of Moral Reasoning 11, were another vote to be taken, consideration would win out over convenience. --Michael Werner...
...year ago. But even as Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egyptian Vice President Hoshi Mubarak lavished praise on President Carter for his role in forging the historic accord, a potential new obstacle to the glacial peace process arose. With exquisitely bad timing, the Cabinet of Premier Menachem Begin chose the eve of the agreement's first birthday to rescind a twelve-year prohibition against land acquisitions by Israeli citizens in the West Bank and Gaza...
...finished his three plays set in mythical Bradleyville, Jones was discovered by Tennessee Williams' agent, Audrey Wood, who arranged for a Washington production of Trilogy. The plays' success at the Kennedy Center led to a brief run on Broadway and national celebrity for the author, but Jones chose to continue to work quietly in Dallas, where, he said, he had "a life in the theater for which most playwrights dream...
...details of the Nixon trip were settled very rapidly. We proposed two dates, Feb. 21 and March 16; Chou chose the earlier. Problems solved themselves as easily as was compatible with the obsessive single-mindedness of the advance men. The head of our security detail distinguished himself by requesting a list of subversives in each locality the President was likely to visit. This raised an interesting problem; in China conservative Republicans would undoubtedly be classed as subversives, and if we asked how many Communist sympathizers there were we would get the unsettling answer of 800 million...
...Khan said, "We're talking about a concern for information. That in itself means coordinating the library." He said he chose Harvard and MIT because the United States will lead architecture around the world, and these two institutions "offer strong components in initiating a program...