Word: cull
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems the Council's real purpose is to cull out a few supremely organized, likeable and not necessarily wealthy individuals for its membership. However, other candidates who believe they can offer the Council qualities other than management skills and popularity--such as diverse backgrounds and pertinent coursework--would undoubtedly be slighted...
Among the luminaries charged were Martin Revson, co-founder of the Revlon cosmetics empire, and Edward Downe Jr., a former director of the investment bank Bear Stearns and husband of auto heiress Charlotte Ford. The SEC claims Downe used his position at the Wall Street firm to cull confidential information on companies and then used it to earn profits of $3.3 million in stock trades. Revson allegedly netted $1.7 million from improper tips he received from Downe. Others charged by the SEC are Steven Greenberg, a former public relations executive, who allegedly pocketed $550,000 in illicit profits; Thomas Warde...
...California law professor Susan Estrich. More important, perhaps, Hill's putative Democratic allies on the Senate Judiciary Committee sat back as judges while the Republicans played the role of prosecutors, ultimately painting the Yale-educated law professor as a delusionary careerist with a split personality and a tendency to cull lawbooks for references to pornographic film stars. "The asymmetry was tough to watch," says a top strategist for the Democrats. "The Democrats have always been the defenders of women's issues, but when one of those issues was brought to center stage, they caved. Hill was savaged for three days...
Each week a staff of 32 based in New York City works with our 19 bureaus around the world to shape stories, cull pictures and lay out the pages for the fraternal twin of the U.S. edition. With a circulation of 1.5 million, TIME International produced 1,500 pages on its own last year, including 37 cover stories. It has, in short, become a magazine in its own right -- and as such it needs the editorial organization that will ensure its further growth and vitality. Effective this week, Karsten Prager becomes managing editor of TIME International, and his deputy...
...coffee shops while passing through Northwestern timber towns, the local people just stare and glare. Many of them recognize him from homemade wanted posters hung in sawmills or have seen his name on banners with slogans like KISS MY AX, ANDY. Lumberjacks deride Kerr as Andy Cur or Andy Cull (a term for a worthless log). And after putting away a few beers, some loggers have even called him from tavern telephones with death threats...