Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilcox said yesterday that a group of students had expressed an interest in having such a course offered on Hispanic development. "Everyone always tells such student groups to go out and find someone who can teach it," he said, adding that the group chose Lopez, who agreed to teach the course...
...zigzags have brought Energy Secretary James Schlesinger under such heavy fire that White House advisers urged Carter either to fire him or to defend him publicly. Carter chose the second course; Press Secretary Jody Powell said last week that Schlesinger had been "as effective as anyone can be," given the situation." Schlesinger actually offered his resignation to Carter in April, but now he regards himself as the messenger despised because he brings bad news. He is determined to stay on. But Schlesinger is so unpopular in Congress, one DOE official confesses, that "just saying we favor something can create votes...
Believing that Congress should not simply oppose, Moffett is also pushing his own plan to force every driver to choose one day a week on which he would keep his car or cars in the garage. The motorist would get a windshield sticker identifying the day he chose not to drive; if caught on the road on the forbidden day, he would be subject to arrest and a fine...
...opposition stemmed from the state practice of allowing Texans of one party to cross over to vote in the other's primary. But voters cannot split their ballot: they have to go all Republican or all Democrat. The Bees wanted one primary so that conservative Democrats who chose to vote for Republican Connally would not be able to vote for opponents of liberal Democrats in the state races. On the other hand, Hobby wanted two primaries so that the conservative Democrats would be free to vote for Connally in one, and for their favorites on the state level...
...totally motivated by their editor's enthusiasm and energy--the Spark-Plug syndrome rather than the Times' Carrot-and-Stick or the Post's Survival-of-the-Fittest. Don Forst is quick with his stick--he fired the Herald's Sunday magazine editor not long ago when the guy chose to spend a weekend with his family rather than fly down to the magazine's printers in Kentucky with a last-minute editorial change. But Forst's approach to Hartnett suggests a Champion Spark Plug in the making. According to Dave O'Brian's "Don't Quote Me..." column...