Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, wildness may constitute the entire explanation. De Lorean may simply have spun out of control, following a bad idea with a desperate flail. Then, too, he may have actively been trying to destroy himself. He chose a symmetrical end, after all. To be nabbed in Los Angeles, the city of the car, and of his youth. To have the coke discovered in a Chevy, the All-American machine. Finally, to risk the ruin of his career by means of a drug that for a certain social set may be said to have replaced the automobile as the national narcotic...
Kenyatta's name is perhaps the most easily explained inconsistency. He was born Donald Jackson but changed it in the early 70s to Muhammad Kenyatta. Not a Muslim, he ruefully notes that his name makes him unique among Baptist preachers. But he says that he chose the name, not because of the Muslim prophet, but in honor of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Black Muslim movement, as a sign of Black nationalism...
...president of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA), Kenyatta has been an active spokesman for the boycott both inside and outside Harvard. Minority groups chose him last spring to write a letter explaining the boycott to Greenberg and Chambers. Law School Dean James Vorenberg sent a copy of that letter, along with a draft containing his own anti-boycott stance, to law students over the summer. The national media also obtained copies of the letter and quoted from it in articles about the boycott, most of which criticized the boycotting student for what one columnist called "banal ethnocenricism...
...running this year, and the patience that the public is showing in judging his stewardship of the economy does not necessarily translate into votes for the candidates of his party. Asked which party would probably do the better job of reducing unemployment, 48% of those polled by Yankelovich chose the Democrats, 33% saw no difference, and a mere 14% opted for the Republicans. That result was not altogether surprising; Democrats are traditional advocates of heavy social spending aimed partly at creating jobs. But even registered G.O.P. voters split, 28% to 28%, on whether their party or the Democrats would...
...several specific policy issues, voters divide in ways that cannot please either party very much. Asked what the nation should do to spur economic recovery, 66% chose as their first priority large cuts in Government spending. A plus for Reagan and the Republicans? Not entirely: 62% of those who gave this answer would reduce planned military outlays, vs. only 21% who would slash further into social-program expenditures...