Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidate said in a press conference yesterday that he chose Harvard as the launching site for the plan because it is an "institution of educational excellence...
...seven hours a day instead of six. The Mississippi legislature has increased school aid by $69 million and is considering adding 20 days to the school calendar. New York City instituted a new policy this winter requiring nightly homework assignments. Last week the city's board of education chose Anthony Alvarado as the schools' new chancellor, partly because the innovative, ten-year administrator has turned around a local school district with a back-to-basics approach (and partly because his Hispanic heritage satisfied a fiery, racially politicized campaign for a minority appointee...
...point in CURL's development, the college extended an open invitation to the eating clubs to become financially supported by the university. "Essentially, they wanted to buy the clubs out, which would put them in power," said Wood. But the clubs spurned the administration's helping hand and chose to remain autonomous...
Although most of Bok's points are not new, they are all the more forceful because of his position and the occasion he chose for airing them. Maurice Rosenberg, professor of procedural law at Columbia University and a former official in the Carter Administration, suggests that the increase in litigation and in the complexity of the law is due partly to greater public awareness of rights and a willingness to try them out in court. "That," says Rosenberg, "is certainly preferable to having them tested in the streets." Rosenberg agrees with Bok, however, that "law schools should do more...
Owners of the Philadelphia-based chain specifically chose the Walnut Mall location because of its proximity to the University of Pennsylvania Said Paul Curry, one of the store's owners, "We want UP [University of Pennsylvania students] to refer to this as 'their Steve...