Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chose MacMahon because "he is a first rate scientist and the best epidemiologist the OTA could find," a spokesman for the OTA said yesterday...
...Quad Houses are an obvious "sphere", and University Hall initially chose to leave Currier open sinc its dining hall was the largest. Activist North House residents, students and masters reacted unfavorably to this proposal. Hanna Hastings, comaster of North, pointed out that proportionately more students--59 per cent--eat breakfast at North than any other House...
...both constitutional and international, was judged at Nuremburg to be no excuse for certain kinds of behavior. Kissinger made policy, he was in a position to choose, to weigh the factors of law, morality, and a commitment to values of human life and freedom from oppression. He chose, he acted; and he did so in such a way as to betray fundamental universal principles of law, of respect for life and regard for the right of people to determine their own destiny...
...difficult task for the Carter men, because the President's reasons for scuttling the rebate were primarily political rather than economic. The rebate faced strong opposition on Capitol Hill since many Congressmen doubted it would be effective, and Carter chose not to fight for it at the same time that he was launching his embattled energy program. An additional embarrassment to the policymakers: shortly before they appeared in front of the committee, the Administration lowered its forecast of economic growth for the year a notch to 4.9% (see chart), and raised its prediction of the 1977 inflation rate...
Power and Status. Welcome though it has been, quality was only half the Upstairs, Downstairs story. The British class system-that stately quadrille of power and status-deserves some credit, both for flourishing when it did and then declining toward nostalgia. The series chose its central preoccupation wisely. On paper, it would appeal both to snobs mourning the good old days and to libertarians rooting for the rise of the masses. The program's triumph was that things did not work out that way. Those who hitched on to savor the Bellamys' fall from grace remained to grieve...