Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1890s offered Lounging Coats, Smoking Jackets and Negligee Coats at $6.50 for those planning to entertain at home. If he chose to venture outside, the man about town sported gloves of choice skins and correct shades, each pair selling for one dollar. Other gentlemanly accessories included silk neckwear at 50 cents a piece...
...show that he would waste no time tackling the country's problems, De la Madrid began to announce new government appointments the day before the inauguration. For the key post of Finance Secretary, he chose Jesus Silva-Herzog, a Yale-educated economist who negotiated a $3.8 billion credit for Mexico this fall from the International Monetary Fund. De la Madrid also reappointed Miguel Mancera Aguayo as director of the Bank of Mexico. Mancera Aguayo had resigned from the post last September after Lopez Portillo imposed strict regulations on currency exchange. Both men are thought to advocate stringent measures...
...which because of the region's isolation do not occur anywhere else in the world. The WWF estimates that 53% of animals in this rain forest are endemic, and so it is important that the remnants of the rain forest be preserved to stave off total extinction. The WWF chose the muriqui as the subject of their documentary because their plight is symbolic of many of those endemic species...
...cruelest irony of the unemployment tax suggestion is that the Administration, for whatever reason, chose to unveil it on Thanksgiving. The nation's poor have once again been left wondering what in Reaganomics they have to give thanks for--and whether the President's Christmas gift to he jobless rolls he has created will be another nasty surprise...
...final phase in the evolution of peace theology was the formation in 1980 of the Bernardin committee. Archbishop Roach skillfully chose the membership of the five-man committee to span the spectrum of the bishops' thinking on nuclear arms. The most liberal member of the committee is Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, 52, of Detroit, who heads Pax Christi, a movement with strong pacifist inclinations. A total of 57 bishops belong to the organization. Gumbleton's hawkish opposite on the committee is Bishop John O'Connor, 62, who runs the church's military ministry for Cardinal Cooke...