Word: select
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Delegates to the summer Congress form the legislative body of NSA. Each member school sends a certain number of voting delegates according to its enrollment (up to seven). Each student government is left free to select delegates as it sees fit. Clearly there are many instances when the students have little control over the eventual make-up of their school's delegation. Structurally at least, it would seem that NSA is fatally unrepresentative...
Superb & Definitive. Not too long ago, Richard Burton was considered one of the half-dozen great actors in the English-speaking world. Other men equally select ?Paul Scofield, Sir Laurence Olivier-recognized this; so did critics like Kenneth Tynan; so did a growing public, aware that Burton was young and that most of his major work was still to be done. He has not done it, and there is more than a slight possibility that he never will. But no one can take from him, at least, the achievements that are already behind...
...another action in response to the recent charges of patronage, the Commission has notified all Federal agency heads that political favoritism in selecting summer employees is "illegal and will not be tolerated." If an agency shows favoritism, the Commission has threatened to suspend that agency's authority to select summer employees...
...contrivance "could not be recovered once it was launched." As closely related to the TFX situation, he cited the Navy's attempt to develop two fighters, the F4H-1 and F8U-3, that were so similar in purpose that a congressional committee in 1958 forced the Navy to select just...
...restaurant in Formosa follows the practice of many a good American seafood house: the patron is invited to select his dinner before it is cooked. There are cages of boxers and dachshunds and mongrel pups to choose from, but chow is considered the best...