Word: select
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This small survey does not tell how all of the country's 727 commercial stations are doing, however. For that information, which advertisers demand, the two rating services select hundreds of thousands of families, a combined total of more than 400,000 in February alone, and send them diaries. To cut costs, it was decided that instead of measuring daily, as Nielsen does for the networks, local ratings would be taken comprehensively during four months supposedly typical of their seasons: November, February, May, and three weeks in July. Based on how well they did in those periods, the stations...
...House. The business under discussion was about as trivial as it could be. Congressmen were passing a resolution urging the Merchant Marine to select an official march for the first time. Nevertheless, the 23-minute session was historic. It was taped by an elaborate $1.2 million complex of television equipment from a control room in a subbasement of the Capitol...
...operating expenses. The House never passed such a resolution, because the lobbyists of the President, who had spearheaded efforts in this country to participate in the IYC, "forgot" to introduce such legislation in that body. At this point the United States and a few African dictatorships comprise the select group not participating on a national basis in IYC activities (whatever they...
...decided last fall to select students for Hum 15 by a random lottery," Louis J. Bakanowsky, chairman of the VES department and instructor for Humanities 15, "The Visual Arts: Conceptual and Practical Explorations," said yesterday. Bakanowsky said he selected 60 students from 400 applicants...
...Prime Minister, these officials hasten to add, is based not on preference but simply on the fact that he is, for the moment, the legal head of government. Says a State Department specialist: "We are not trying to push Bakhtiar on the people of Iran. If they decide to select a new leader of their government, we are perfectly willing to cooperate with that choice." In anticipation of that possibility, U.S. diplomats were quietly engaged in unofficial contacts with the Ayatullah's aides, as well as direct ones with Bakhtiar and the top military leaders...