Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From a journalist's point of view, it may be just as well that the court chose to duck the Farber case, given the cold shoulder that the Justices have turned toward press claims of special privilege in recent decisions. "When journalists rely on the First Amendment in these cases, they'd better face the fact they're not going to get much help from the Supreme Court," says Columbia Law Professor Benno Schmidt. One reporter who agrees is Farber, who is finishing a book on the case. Says he: "I wasn't surprised. I became...
...Jontue ads is pictured leading a white horse; to Outdoorsman Bergerac the first horse that subordinates showed him looked like a sway-backed plow dragger. The boss bought his admen a book on horses and insisted that they study it to pick a more imposing beast. They chose an Arabian stallion that is now pictured in almost every Jontue ad and counter display?a hallmark of Bergerac's approach. He insists that a woman must find at the cosmetics counter the same symbol that may have caught her eye in an ad, so that she can instantly identify the product...
...Crimson itself acknowledged that there are "risks" in accepting Brustein's plan, but it chose to downplay those risks. It seems that those students who hail Brustein's appointment as a major achievement are basing their optimism on two very tenuous assumptions...
What made the cheer possible was a bitter struggle in the state legislature that gave local jurisdictions the right to legalize the sale of liquor by the drink. Before, North Carolinians were limited to beer, wine or whatever hard liquor they chose to "brown bag" (carry with them) when they went out on the town. With North Carolina's shift to local option, there are now only two states where sales of drinks at public places are banned outright. One is Oklahoma, where the temperance law is widely ignored. The other is Kansas, which ran into legal difficulties with...
Soviet Boss Leonid Brezhnev chose to become involved himself last week. In an unusual front-page Pravda statement, Brezhnev declared: "It should be clear that any interference, especially military interference, in the affairs of Iran, a state that borders directly on the Soviet Union, would be regarded by the U.S.S.R. as affecting the interests of its security." That warning, aimed directly at the U.S., startled and annoyed American officials. After a hasty Sunday meeting, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance issued a statement saying that "the U.S. does not intend to intervene in the internal affairs of any country." Then Vance...