Word: chosing
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These are the main findings of a survey of American voters conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc. * When Democrats and independents were asked whom they preferred for the nomination, 28% picked Mondale and 26% chose Glenn, essentially the same support that each enjoyed when the summer began. The rest of the pack includes former Senator George McGovern, the 1972 nominee, with 8%; Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson, still mulling over whether to announce his candidacy, with 5%; California Senator Alan Cranston with 4%; Colorado Senator Gary Hart with 2%; former Florida Governor Reubin Askew with 2%; and South...
...third time in the series, the Phillies chose to pitch to rookie Marshall, who is 0 for 8 so far, by walking the batter ahead of him. Tuesday night, they walked Pedro Guerrero twice to get to Marshall. Last night, they intentionally passed Ken Landreaux in the fifth inning to bring the rookie to the plate with runners on first and third with two out. All three times, Marshall made...
...made history-six days that shook the world. After the week's events, the Communist empire could never be the same. The rest of the world could only look on with a catch in its heart, while thousands who must have known they could expect no outside aid chose, in Jefferson's phrase, to refresh the tree of liberty with blood...
...supply in recent years, an energy crisis crept up on the world with fateful inevitability. Yet, despite spreading signs of scarcity, most government leaders in the U.S., Europe and Japan paid little heed to calls from oilmen for urgent measures to expand energy resources and curb waste. Instead, they chose to believe that there was time to formulate some painless strategy to avert a genuine global emergency...
...winner at 8:15 p.m. E.S.T., and the loser conceded while Americans were still standing in line at polling booths in much of the country. In a savage repudiation of a sitting President not seen since F.D.R. swept away Herbert Hoover in the midst of the Depression, Americans chose Ronald Wilson Reagan, at 69 the oldest man ever to be elected President, to replace Jimmy Carter...