Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, the only difference between deserters and draft resisters is the time they chose to end their involvement in the war--before or after induction. And this difference related directly to class, race, and educational background...
...service posts, where salaries have also been frozen, since no civil service job can pay more than an executive-level position. Employees have an added incentive to quit because retirement benefits keep growing, while salaries are frozen. In 1974, no fewer than 46.6% of eligible executives with frozen salaries chose early retirement. From 1969 to 1976, the Air Force lost 46% of its top scientists. For more than a year, the Social Security Administration has been unable to fill the post of chief actuary, who estimates the longevity of Social Security recipients. During the last three years, four of eleven...
...first to move was Wilson Frost, a black alderman who declared himself acting mayor on the grounds that he was president pro tem of the 50-member city council (one alderman from every Chicago ward). Frost soon found himself out in the cold. A group of council members chose Michael Bilandic, 53, to be acting mayor. A bland, methodical al derman, Bilandic was chairman of the finance committee and the late mayor's right-hand man. Commenting on his origins in a rare display of levity, Biland ic noted that the two-man Croatian delegation in the city council...
...foundation. In 1939, as part of a propaganda effort, the Nazis bundled Jews from all levels of German life, privileged to deprived, onto a Hamburg-Amerika liner, the St. Louis. The ship was bound out of Hamburg to Havana, Cuba, where the passengers understood they could disembark if they chose. Once in Havana harbor, however, the Jews were not allowed off the ship. Their landing permits had been deliberately scrambled by the Cuban government in league with the Nazis, who wanted the ship to sail from port to port searching for asylum. The St. Louis would then become a diplomatic...
...time the relays were run, Harvard had officially won the meet. So rather than swimming his top foursome, Orscheidt chose to equalize the three Harvard relay teams and create his own race-within-a-race...