Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential election was more a celebration than a genuine contest. Now, however, as the giddiness passes, G.O.P. leaders have a real election to worry about. Next Wednesday morning the 53 Republican members of the new Senate will choose a majority leader to replace Tennessee's Howard Baker, who chose not to seek re-election to the Senate...
Alternatively, students wishing to obtain interviews, with companies operating under a "closed system" can do so by submitting resumes at a cost of 10 points each. The companies then chose which of the applicants they wish to interview, Chernick added...
Leadership was the determining issue for 28% of voters, and 83% of them chose Reagan. Asked what they disliked most about Mondale, more Reagan voters (40%) cited his being a "weak leader" than any other factor. Asked what they liked about Mondale, voters more often cited "fairness" (48%) than any other quality...
...bishops chose not to press the dispute, but it continued to hound Ferraro in the form of antiabortion hecklers. In handling their taunts, she demonstrated mettle as well as crowd-pleasing adroitness. When pro-Reagan and antiabortion demonstrators erupted noisily at the University of Texas in Arlington, Ferraro shouted, "If I had a record like Ronald Reagan's, I wouldn't want anybody to hear about it either." At another point she silenced hecklers by poking fun at her own staccato delivery: "You've figured out how to stop this New Yorker from talking too quickly...
...most important and valuable concerns in the whole of world affairs," found time to translate literature from ten different languages into German. André Gide argued that every writer "has an obligation to render at least one foreign work of art into his own language." He chose Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, then went on to Hamlet. In America most major modern poets have obeyed Gide's injunction. The result is a vigorous body of English verse that encompasses such varied sources as Icelandic epics (W.H. Auden), La Fontaine's fables (Marianne Moore), Brazilian poetry (Elizabeth Bishop...