Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disciples in the party will be undeniable. If his luck continues, Robertson could emerge from the primary season controlling a sizeable portion of the convention delegates, poised to shape the Republican platform. In the last two elections independents and defectors from the Democratic party, mesmerized by Reagan's charisma, chose to ignore the Republican Party's beholdenness to the far Right; this time they won't have that chance...
...lecture and to discussions after class, and spend most of my office time with the door open to any student who wants to speak with me. I find it astonishing and saddening that the students with complaints did not raise their voices in one of these forums, and instead chose to make public charges I consider slanderous. I have full confidence that any fair-minded person who heard me out on any of these issues would not find me "racially insensitive." The real source of the charges, I am convinced, is that I failed to hew to a line that...
...Hart chose to skip Iowa because his late returnto the race allowed him too little preparationtime, and he could not afford to spend much of hislimited campaign money there...
...liberal Kennedy (often referred to in Murdoch's Boston Herald as "the Fat Boy") sneaked a clause requiring Murdoch to sell either station or paper into a long congressional appropriations bill. President Reagan seems to have skipped reading the clause when signing the bill into law. In Boston Murdoch chose to sell the station and keep the paper, where he can continue to taunt Teddy. But in New York City he needs the station as flagship of his new television network, so he must sell or close the Post. Bidders might covet the Post's real estate, but who other...
...killers chose their moment well. Attorney General Carlos Hoyos Jimenez had just spent the week in Medellin, drug capital of Colombia, investigating the suspicious release from jail of Cocaine Cowboy Jorge Ochoa Vasquez. Hoyos was headed for the airport to return to Bogota. Suddenly, three jeeps and a car forced Hoyos' Mercedes off the road. Several men jumped out and sprayed the Attorney General's car with machine-gun fire, apparently wounding Hoyos and instantly killing his bodyguard and driver. Hoyos, his head bowed and bloody, was dragged from the vehicle and kidnaped. Hours later his bullet-riddled body...