Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...percent excess capacity presently exists. These are hard times for truckers, and Reagan's advice concerning "passing on the tax to the customer" has a decidedly hollow ring in the face of the cutthroat competition engendered by the present situation. It is hardly a surprise that the independent truckers chose to strike or that the ATA and the Teamsters were less than effusive in supporting them. From the trucking establishment's point of view, it wouldn't be all that bad if the tax increases could squeeze the independents out of the picture...
Most of the expelled workers chose to make the 275-mile trip to Accra overland and their journey was often a nightmare. Separated from Nigeria by the narrow countries of Togo and Benin (see map), Ghana is ruled by Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, who seized power for the second time 13 months ago. Rawlings had ordered all his borders with neighboring countries to be closed last September in an effort to wipe out smuggling and assuage his own fears about an external coup plot said to involve foreign mercenaries...
...seminar is the kind of orientation we would have liked to have when we came in," Howard said. He explained that he chose to hold the program at midyear so that the participants could better appreciate the group's advice, having gone through exams and received their first college grades...
Rosemary D. Bria, also on leave after her second year, says that she chose to attend Harvard because she "wanted simply what the program as a whole could offer me." She says that if Harvard had not accepted her, she would have chosen to attend medical school, explaining. "I did not simply want to be a clinical dentist...
...answer "A little pride, nothing more," THE NOTEBOOK: Several times throughout the meet, the lone voice of an excited spectator could be heard saying. "Get those Harvard guys!" The voice belonged to the father of B. U. 's Brad and Bren Howe--who both had considered attending Harvard but chose to accept B. U. 's scholarship offers Bren scored a first in the 200 back while his brother Brad finished third in the 500 free...