Word: select
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shared by Dr. Ragnar Frisch, 74, of Norway, and Dr. Jan Tinbergen, 66, of The Netherlands. The award was for their joint development in the 1930s of the esoteric but highly influential field of econometrics, which employs mathematical models to analyze an economy, predict its course and help to select policies that will alter its future...
...used to be fairly easy to tell when Harvard's varsity football team was preparing for Princeton. Coach John Yovicsin would select an elite group of reserves from Henry Lamar's freshman team, teach them very quickly the arts of the mystical single wing system, and run them against his varsity...
...Fainsod Committee's recommendations, the letter said. "already provide a large element of election in the process of choosing the Council. We think any future dean will need the tiny minimum of opportunity allowed him by the Fainsod report to select members of the Faculty Council in whom he himself has confidence...
...hearings in San Francisco last week, the House Select Committee to Investigate Crime began to probe the route of amphetamines from manufacturers to the streets. There emerged a frightening pattern of ineffective federal regulation, corporate negligence and complicity on the part of some drug firms that profit from the illegal trade...
...Harvard Corporation has chosen the committee which will select twelve newsmen to spend next year at Harvard as Nieman Fellows...