Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thurston added that the other 85 chose to have their cases heard and risk facing fines...
Before this squash season began, coach Dave Fish talked of the dual nature of his team's priorities for the season. Asked which national title was more important to him, the championship based on year long dual match records, or the season-ending intercollegiate six-man tournament, he smilingly chose "whichever...
...presenting stories. Perhaps this is one reason why CBS, best and haughtiest of the news organizations, has gone to its sports division to find the new head of CBS News, Van Gordon Sauter, 46. CBS and NBC were the first to sneer 4½ years ago, when ABC chose its sports wonder Roone Arledge to head both ABC News and Sports. Arledge sent Sauter a wry congratulatory telegram, suggesting that CBS obviously knew the right place to look for a new news boss...
...Vietnamese the shadow of representative government but not the substance; as many Americans freely admitted, the national elections mandated by the 1955 Geneva conference would probably have propelled Ho Chi Minh into power--a likelihood that we and South Vietnam's aspiring bosses were unwilling to accept. So America chose to keep the country divided, and substitute military power for genuine political authority--for the latter was not ours to give...
...time. At a meeting of the "Wise Old Men," brought together to consider the implications of Tet in March 1968, former U.N. ambassador Arthur Goldberg pointed out the impossibility of the army's figures. U.S. leaders knew the information behind their Vietnam strategy was riddled with inconsistencies but chose to overlook their gloomy implications. So the battle--hopeless, pointless, endless--continued...