Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to an October 10 article in The New York Times, the professors chose an old Victorian estate house in North Andover for the meeting. The talks were stalled when Ed Garvey, the executive director of the players' union, failed to arrive. According to the Times, Garvey said he was not informed of the meeting early enough to prepare properly...
...polls are confusing too. A national sampling of voters taken by the Los Angeles Times in August on who or what might be responsible for the recession chose as the No. 1 villain foreign oil prices, followed by Japanese competition and Congress. More people blamed Jimmy Carter (No. 8 on the blameworthy list) than Reagan (No. 9), and more pointed a finger at the Democratic Party (No. 7) than at the Republican Party (No. 10). On the other hand, White House aides are baffled by polls showing that voters approve Reagan's policies of cutting Government spending, fighting inflation...
...when former 15th-round draft pick Willie Davis was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Green Bay wing, he chose Eddie Robinson to introduce him at the ceremonies. Davis had a sense that his Packer coach, the late Vince Lombardi, was present too in Robinson. "They were both tough disciplinarians," he says, "with soft human sides. They made football a lesson of life. Maybe some of the problems in the game now-you know, drugs-are rooted in the fact that you don't hear coaches described that way much any more...
...constituents--whose polls were still open decided not to vote, feeling their ballot was useless. This did not affect the presidential race, which was decided east of the Mississippi. But in smaller congressional, state, and local races--particularly Corman's--Democratic candidates lost votes when despairing Carter supporters chose not to cast their ballots...
...have heard other stories. In a zoology class of 36 students, mostly white sorority girls, no one chose to be the laboratory partner of the only black male student. After an embarrassing interval, a white girl who was not in a sorority volunteered. In a class that was discussing the Meredith riots, a black student argued: "Only the vocabulary has changed. How many black professors are there? How many administrators?" A white private-school graduate replied, "If things are so bad, why are you here?" During this discussion, two white sorority girls were thumbing through Vogue magazine...