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Word: chosing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Carter was raised in the Southern Baptist church, he consciously chose a personal relationship with God a decade...

Author: By Janice L. Cox, | Title: Defining 'Born Again' | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

...Volvo of Sweden, after scouting the U.S. for an assembly-plant site, chose Chesapeake, Va. The company will spend $150 million to build a factory that is scheduled to open in March 1977. Potential employment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BOOM: Surging to Prosperity | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...comment on the Brown-Beasley case. However, Wyatt defended the choice of Datapoint hardware for the payroll system in an interview last week, stating that the OIT staff had recommended the Datapoint machine for a "distributed" computer system and a Hewlett-Packard computer for a centralized system. Wyatt chose the Datapoint machine, he said, in part because he believed the distributed system better fit into budgetarily decentralized Harvard. The Datapoint machine also afforded greater privacy, he added, and it could be leased, unlike the purchase-only Hewlett Packard. Wyatt also said that Datapoint "is looking quite good now," and that...

Author: By Margaret A. Shapiro, | Title: Ruling over Radcliffe | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

Ciannavei and Robert A. Carroll, manager of systems and operations in the OIT computing center and head of the group that conducted the study, said last week that Wyatt chose the Datapoint machine after receiving promises of a systems software innovation whose availability was discussed in the report: "Our overall feeling about this system is that with the addition of the 5500 processor, it would be quite adequate to do the presently-defined task in Payroll. However, this system's capability to accommodate more terminals or additional processing functions gracefully would be in question...

Author: By Margaret A. Shapiro, | Title: Ruling over Radcliffe | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...deliver to the assembled physicians of Kampala, he is almost completely incoherent. Although he is undoubtedly something less than a brilliant political and social theorist in Swahili, his flawed English tends to make him appear a borderline idiot, which he certainly is not. It is unfortunate that Schroeder chose to make a political film in and about a country whose language he does not speak. But it is even more unfortunate that, rather than avail himself of the services of an interpreter, he deliberately utilized the language barrier, apparently to place particular emphasis on Amin's frighteningly shallow, misinformed...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Taking the Easy Way Out | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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