Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were in agreement in their perceptions of the situation there and that they acted in concert in dealing with leaders of the warring factions. That was clearly not the case. From the beginning, I saw the meeting with Yasser Arafat as a propaganda ploy by the P.L.O., and I chose not to attend it. I immediately denounced the document that Congressman Pete McCloskey obtained from Arafat as nothing new and possibly a harmful deception...
...anxieties of draft-age youths in Tajikistan, a republic bordering the Soviet client government of parlous Afghanistan. Earlier he had detailed the fondness of ranking bureaucrats for racy Western films that are banned for the Soviet masses, and had exposed the bribes extracted by a circus director who chose which performers traveled abroad. More consequential, in April Newsweek nettled the Soviets with a decidedly premature cover story, to which Nagorski contributed, depicting Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev as a dying man who was losing political control. But Nagorski got more than a routine dressing down. Press Office Deputy Director Yuri Viktorov...
...bomb detonated in a flash of orange. A growing white circle indicated that he had destroyed his opponent's forces. But the weapon he chose was so powerful that it also wiped out his own troops. His only comment: a subdued "Holy smoke." Says George Smith, one of the program's designers: "The rapidity of casualties surprised them...
...Livergood: "We got 2,000 phone calls an hour. The shuttle was on seven other channels, but they chose to call rather than switch...
Dole concedes that he often used humor to wound rather than amuse. "I'm very competitive," he says. "And it's easy to move from competitive to combative." Dole's most acerbic period came after Gerald Ford chose him as running mate in 1976. "They needed somebody to go out in the brier patch," Dole recalls. The Kansan tore into the Democrats with a barbed zeal that turned off many wavering voters. In his televised debate with Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale, Dole's jokes did not fit the serious forum and his partisanship went...