Word: chosing
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Isang says he chose a liberal arts college over a music conservatory deliberately. "I was sort of bored with the whole idea of a conservatory. All the people are competing with one another, whereas here, everyone is here to help each other." Besides, he adds. "It always helps to have a well founded education. In case something happens to my fingers, I have a backup...
...Iacocca is not dour or hortatory. When he finished with the graduates 45 minutes later, some 14,000 people were on their feet, cheering and stomping. At last year's Al Smith Memorial Dinner in New York, the annual gathering of the city's political Establishment, Bob Hope unwisely chose to perform after Iacocca. Iacocca was, as usual, a tough act to follow. Hope has said quite seriously that he will never again let the chairman of Chrysler Corp. precede him onto the podium...
Reagan strove to be as tactful on economic issues as Alfonsin was on political questions. The U.S. President chose not to reply directly to Argentina's most immediate plea for U.S. assistance, a request for a $500 million "bridge loan" to help the country ride out the debt crisis. But Reagan did assure Alfonsin that, as a U.S. official later put it, "we stand ready to help where we can." Later, Reagan aides expressed skepticism that the U.S. could or would do much on the debt question. "He would like our support," said one U.S. official...
...found it so hard to let power pass from their generation to the next. In choosing a younger man, they would be weakening themselves: he would have time to build up his own power base and patronage network, which would gradually impinge on theirs. That is probably why they chose Chernenko 13 months ago. Indeed, they could have exercised the same option last week, turning to Andrei Gromyko, 75, or Viktor Grishin...
...front man for traitors." As head of the Internal Security Subcommittee, he conducted a noisy investigation of suspected Communists in the teaching profession. He saw the influence he had gained during the years of anti-Red hysteria begin to ebb with McCarthy's censure in 1954 and chose not to run for a third full term...