Word: chosing
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...moments before by a shot through the kitchen window; her 7-year-old grandson was missing, his bullet-riddled body later recovered in an abandoned car. The boy's stepfather, on parole after years in prison for attempted murder and carjacking, has been taken in for questioning. "Because I chose to do what was natural to me and love someone," the child's mother, Julia Hudson, wrote on her MySpace page, "it cost me my beautiful family...
...think there’s no better calling than public service. In college, sometimes I went back and forth and said maybe I should go strictly into business and do it through philanthropy. But I chose public service because it gave me a direct opportunity to have direct impact. This may sound silly, but I take pleasure in seeing that the streets are well paved, that we’re educating our kids—those things you don’t get on Wall Street...
...fire when he said on BBC Radio that the Icelandic Finance minister had told him that the Icelandic government did not plan to honor British deposits after nationalization, an allegation later found to be utterly false from the conversation transcripts. Amidst these incredible circumstances, the Icelandic government chose to effectively nationalize all three main banks, and investors began to worry about a national default on debt given the size of the debts the government had to absorb. Despite the harsh criticism it has endured in the last decade, it was the IMF that stepped in to provide a highly symbolic...
...hold some clues. It has been 48 years since a sitting Senator has been elected President, but in that time, five went directly from the Senate to the vice presidency. Some of them - Walter Mondale comes to mind - served as all-purpose advisers and troubleshooters for the President. Others chose specific portfolios - as Al Gore did in taking charge of areas like the environment, technology and reorganizing the operation of the Executive Branch...
...victim's bra, which they say had the defendants' DNA on it because it had been left on the crime scene for days after the murder. But each defendant's legal team has insinuated in court that the fellow defendants may be responsible for the murder. Guede reportedly chose the fast-track procedure because he feared the other two defendants had a pact against...