Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gemayel received us for the interview. From the windows of the pink stone house there is a breathtakingly beautiful view of the mountain slopes with their olive groves and grapevines among gray boulders. But Maronite Christians like the Gemayels did not settle in Lebanon because of its beauty. They chose those mountains because of security, a rugged area ideal for defense, where a lonely Christian community could defend itself and survive in a sea of sometimes hostile Muslim neighbors. The Maronites survived without ever being reduced to minority status, not because of law or the goodness of their neighbors...
...Statistics are the only thing that cut any ice" with UHS authorities. JCSW chairman Judith Herzfeld says. She and other members say they chose to pursue the complaint about obstetrics because other charges could too easily be dismissed as "attitudinal" conflicts or isolated difficulties...
Democrat Barney Frank did not want to run against Republican Margaret Heckler. Heckler did not want to face Frank. But according to the last census, Massachusetts had one too many congressional seats; somebody would have to be squeezed out. The Democrat-controlled legislature, charged with redistricting, chose to inconvenience most the incumbent they knew best and liked least: Frank, 42, who as a state legislator (1973-80) had made the mistake of being uncooperative and acerbic. The gerrymandered new Fourth District, which stretches snakelike from Boston to Rhode Island, has many more Democrats (115,000) than Republicans...
...editors chose to publish 35 from Leifer's portfolio, the largest photo essay by a single photographer ever to run in TIME. All, except for the cover portrait of Attica Inmate Richard Eder, were black-and-white shots. Says Leifer: "Prison is a very, very boring existence for convicts. We sought an honest look." One of his most vivid portraits is of Charles Manson, convicted of the Tate-LaBianca murders of 1969, who was photographed for the first time in his cell. At the start, Manson, whose drug-using, commune-organizing, desert-dwelling '60s life-style once made...
...straight games. So Palmer is going to outlast Weaver after all. Neither man brooks any opinion but his own, and they have been legendary adversaries. "Every single gray hair I got," says Weaver, 52, "I got from Palmer." Once, when Earl was hopping mad at Palmer, Palmer chose the moment of Weaver's highest hop to say, "Earl, I've never seen you look so tall." Weaver is 5 ft. 6½ in. tall...