Word: select
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From these sketches, Dior and his staff select the "line" for the season-some 150 to 200 models. They are assigned to various workrooms, which make up "toiles" -replicas in plain muslin...
...Hooker. To get around the inconveniences of unguided democracy, Sukarno proposed to hobble the Cabinet and concentrate political power in the hands of an extraparliamentary National Council, whose members he himself would select. In the new, "mutual-help" Cabinet, said he, "will sit all parties* represented in Parliament. Side by side with the Cabinet will be the National Council, whose membership will include all layers of our community. The council's function will be to advise the Cabinet whether or not it is asked...
Speculation that the Corporation will select a football coach at its regular meeting this morning received little support last night from University officals...
...York halls and hotels had refused them talking room, the top leadership of the U.S. Communist party-its "surface" membership down to about 8,500 from 80,000 in 1944-was holding its first national convention since 1950. Prime purpose of the four-day, closed-door session: to select a new national committee and to heal the three-way split in party ranks that had followed Moscow's "downgrading" of Stalin, its "upgrading" of Stalin, and the brutal intervention in Hungary...
...flaws, many companies are trying the "incident process" developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Paul Pigors, which trains people in creative thought much like the case system in law schools. The discussion group gets an outline of the problem, fires out its ideas, then judges each one to select the best solutions. So far the process has been tried by some 1,000 companies and organizations (among them: General Mills, General Foods, United Aircraft, Trans-Canada Air Lines, the U.S. Treasury and Bell Telephone...