Word: select
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ideas -Franklin Roosevelt relied more on his White House troubleshooters than on his Cabinet, Dwight Eisenhower on an Army-style staff system. But the test of any method is and must be pragmatic: Does it work? Even more than F.D.R., John Kennedy has chosen to rely on a large, select squad of brain trusters. Creating policy, the President gathers his advisers in study groups and task forces, gives them freedom to cross over and through the lines of authority...
Absent Edges. Omnibus Producer Robert Saudek presented a reasoned argument centered in the idea that the "networks must not go on, in the name of freedom, polluting air they do not own." His proposal: set up several nonprofit organizations, staffed by experts in various fields who would select programs; the networks would simply function as agents selling air time, but would have no control over shows. Writer-Producer Robert Alan (The Sacco-Vanzetti Story) Aurthur, whose rhetoric was particularly eloquent when he was describing the "cold, slitted eyes of advertising men," revealed that low-flying, low-quality ABC, the network...
...Stookey suggests, the undergraduate is unable to perceive a direct relationship between the specific period of his life set aside for education, and the career he will subsequently select, then the incentive for diligent and creative study must come from another source...
...foreign trade techniques, the living culture of the peoples of world market areas, and a foreign language. Recuriters from U. S. international firms have made it clear that they equate general cultural knowledgeability, a properly adjusted attitude toward an overseas career, and aptitude when they select Institute graduates...
...such a vital question as whether he has had hepatitis. Moreover, he cannot comfortably give more than a pint every two or three months. The corpse cannot lie, and the pathologists doing an autopsy can check every vital organ for disease-including the liver for evidence of hepatitis. They select as donors only the corpses of presumably healthy individuals who die suddenly, as in traffic accidents or from heart attacks. A cadaver yields far more blood than a walking donor: the Pontiac investigators have drawn as many as three pints from a grown man; the Russians say they...