Word: chosing
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What they need now is a judge and not another advocate." In that phrase, an old friend of Richard Allen's summed up why the White House chose a true foreign policy neophyte, Deputy Secretary of State William P. Clark, as the new National Security Adviser. A California lawyer and rancher who wears boots with three-piece suits, Clark had to admit during confirmation hearings a year ago that he could not name the Prime Ministers of South Africa and Zimbabwe...
...behest of Reagan lieutenants who conferred only with Republican leaders and did not so much negotiate as tell them what the President would and would not accept. Moreover, Congress gave Reagan power within broad limits to take that $4 billion out of whichever programs he chose, over the anguished protest of House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jamie Whitten that "you might as well transfer full control to the Executive Branch and take the Legislative Branch out of business...
Several other key Crimson performers chose to swim unofficially to keep the otherwise lopsided score down, coach Vicki Hays said yesterday...
...country's crumbling economic system and to share with the government in running it. "We wanted to make the authorities accountable to society," explained Bronislaw Geremek, Walesa's chief theoretician. As a start, the union decided to attack the corrupt and inefficient nomenklatura system, under which the government chose plant managers not for their skills but for their loyalty to the party. The union's stratagem: force the government to approve a system of self-management for the factories that would allow workers' councils to choose their own managers. Even Walesa was skeptical about the efficiency of such a system...
Paul Brown chose the design personally. Little about the Bengals is not of Brown's personal choosing, and nothing is without design. Cincinnati's expansion team was conceived by him in 1967 as a surrogate for the Cleveland Browns, the team he founded in 1946 that bears his name. After 17 mostly glorious seasons in Cleveland, Brown lost title in a power struggle with Art Modell, and Paul made sure he kept total command the next time...