Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prison stints. Rocky reveals that his parents are dope-pushers and bootleggers, but says he's not asking for sympathy. And in the play's most poignant monologue, Mona pathetically tells the story of how the street gang assaulted him, not the other way around. But the police chose to see it the gang's way, and Mona has learned to expect the same raw deal from prison...
...inexcusable ignorance of student preferences for living conditions and at worst a conscious and paternalistic disregard for student and worker input in general. Fox and other administrators decided the breakfast issue as though from an ivory tower, making little effort to ascertain student opinion on the subject--and so chose an unimaginative plan that almost no one likes...
Before last year, the alumni association did not make public its choice for commencement speaker until commencement day because they chose the speaker from the list of recipients of honorary degrees, which is not released until the morning of commencement...
...that some people will associate the book with imaginative commercial ventures like Erichvon Daniken's Chariots of the Gods rather than seeing it as a serious scholarly work. To prevent such offhand dismissal of his theory, Jaynes asked his publisher for complete control over the book's format. He chose the type style, designed the cover, and insisted on the rather ponderous title and thorough footnoting. He says the book's present appearance clearly shows he is "not trying to sell books but to contribute to knowledge." "Books are much too important to leave to publishers," he adds with...
...Arnold chose not to post bail, so the ten days he has already spent in prison will probably be credited to his final sentence, Graybill said...