Word: select
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rose has been a remarkably efficient hitting machine since winning rookie of the year honors in 1963. He has batted over .300 twelve times in the past 13 seasons, a relentless production that has carried him past Frank Frisch's record for switch-hitters and into the select circle of 3,000-hit men. While breaking Holmes' record, Rose performed with the tenacious concentration that has marked his career. Six times he kept the streak alive on his last turn at the plate...
...ethical questions raised by scientific advances in procreation can only become more urgent as new techniques are explored and developed. Robert Edwards, Steptoe's partner in the Oldham experiment, has advocated test-tube selection of the offspring's sex, though only to reduce such sex-linked diseases as hemophilia. Politician Abse fears that "we are moving to a time when an embryo purchaser could select in advance the color of the baby's eyes and its probable...
That is not invariably the case. It is true that some anchors do little more than read scripts they did not write about news they did not select, and some are Ted Baxter types distinguished by appearance more than ability. Handsome, blow-dried Ron Hunter, for instance, is resigning from Chicago's WMAQ this month in the face of stagnant ratings and intense vilification by the city's acerbic TV critics. "He couldn't cover his nose, much less a fire," sniffs the Sun-Times's Swertlow. Yet many of the six-figure anchors, probably...
...select group of high officials including Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger who are free to make use of classified secret material in the preparation of books and to demand extraordinary sums of money for them...
...proposed program, dubbed "Students Helping Students" (SHS), would select undergraduate advisers for groups of six to eight freshmen, depending on their proposed concentrations, Arthur J. Kyriazis '80, organizer of SHS, said last week...