Word: select
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might attempt to barter his electoral votes for policy concessions before the electors meet Dec. 16. In fact, it is most unlikely that any candidate would treat with Wallace. Thus, the issue would be up to Congress in January. The Constitution calls for the House of Representatives to select the President, with each state delegation casting one vote and a majority of 26 states needed for a decision. If no vice-presidential candidate had an electoral majority, the Senate would vote to fill the second spot...
...second ethical-medical question was: How to select the recipient for a transplant? Most operations so far have been performed on men with advanced and long-standing heart disease. In such cases, it seems that a new heart may be wasted on a patient with negligible chances of survival. But can a doctor, in good conscience, pass over the man who is most severely ill and doomed soon to die, in favor of a younger man with more vitality, whose need is less urgent but who has a better chance of survival? On this score, said Cooley...
...that there are too few expert cardiologists to read all the ECGs now taken, let alone the millions more that a truly effective preventive-medicine program would demand. Now, in an application of transistor-age electronics, a compact new machine enables technicians to do the initial screening, and select for the cardiologists' attention only those ECGs that contain warning evidence of abnormalities...
...basic screening. Since what is adjudged normal in an ECG varies with the subject's age, early models of the analyzer were set for use on only the age bracket of the volunteers being tested. Later models may be programmed for several age levels, which the technician can select by a simple dial...
Aeroflot teams had worked on the 122-passenger plane for three weeks. A select crew was picked, including Pilot Boris Egorov, 48, a veteran who holds the rank of Meritorious Flyer of the U.S.S.R. There were also four of the prettiest-all things being relative-stewardesses in Aeroflot's big (248,000 route miles) system. The stewardesses' first names were Maya, Gay, Lena and Natasha...