Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Work Incentive Program), a joint HEW-Labor Department effort to train her for a better job. In addition, she can receive free psychiatric counseling from the state to help her cope with her family's considerable problems. Daughter Lucy, 16, became pregnant last December and chose not to have an abortion, even though the state would have paid for it. Instead, she elected to move into the private Florence Crittenton Association home, where all her expenses are taken care of by the State Welfare Office. Should she decide to keep the baby, the two may form a new family...
...that university's presidency. Rosovsky never confirmed or denied that the offer had been made, but sources close to the dean reported that he turned down the trip to New Haven because he did not want to leave Harvard before completing his review of undergraduate education. Yale instead chose A. Bartlett Giamatti, a 39-year-old professor of Renaissance literature, who had already been immortalized by having a moose-head trophy named in his honor and placed in one of Yale's undergraduate dining halls...
TIME Photographer Peter Jordan remained in Kolwezi to capture the invasion's grim aftermath on film and made his own way using abandoned cars and bare-rimmed bicycles when he chose not to walk the deserted streets of the town alone. He expects never to return to Kolwezi...
...United Church of Christ (1,801,000 members). Under local option, the heirs of the Puritans chose to ordain the nation's first openly homosexual clergyman, William Johnson, in 1972. The church has set no national policy on ordination, but an agency is conducting a long-range study. United Church People for Biblical Witness, organized in April, is at work against a new denominational study guide that takes a tolerant view of homosexual behavior. f United Methodist Church (9,861,000 members). A church agency proposed that the 1976 General Conference repeal a four-year-old policy statement that...
...empire, and earned a seven-year war-crimes sentence for making P.O.W.s do forced labor for Hitler. Flick Senior bounced back after serving only three years of his sentence. Released in 1950, he was ordered by the Allies to sell his rich holdings in either coal or steel. He chose coal and collected more than $50 million, which he used to build an even more prosperous empire based on petrochemicals, paper, steel-and Daimler-Benz stock. Today the Flick Group is a $4-billion-a-year conglomerate of some 100 companies that make products as diverse as bathtubs and Leopard...