Word: select
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week, pro-repeal groups in Eugene had not requested help from Anita Bryant. One such organization, known as VOICE, announced that it would stick to political arguments and not raise issues of God and motherhood in its repeal efforts. "We are against any select group having their conduct protected," said VOICE Campaign Worker Michelle Barton...
...press run of 200,000 copies and claims that if all sell out, the company will make a profit of about $1 million. The book is priced at $19.95, and there are also special editions. One, at $50, includes Nixon's signature and a slipcase cover. For a select group of 2,500 Nixon loyalists, who have been solicited by mail, there is a $250 leather-bound autographed edition...
...forced to commit criminal acts as proof of their zeal. "They are more conspiratorial than KGB agents," says an official in Hamburg. Nonetheless, terrorism can still be foiled by innovative measures. West Germany, for instance, has developed a new system, known as Zielfahndung (target search): teams of police officers select groups of suspects from computer rosters and follow them to learn habits, weaknesses, friends and hangouts, to the point that they can almost predict what the suspects can do or intend to do. As a result, since 1971, police have arrested more than 200 people suspected of being terrorists...
...revitalizing the State Department's neglected bureaucracy, Cyrus Vance has delegated considerable authority to his top-ranking deputies. But he has also established around him a select circle of six, whose help he especially seeks, regardless of their official titles...
Against the SASC I maintain that Harvard must "place the academic goals of the University above all other considerations." Harvard does not select students on the basis of their ability to manage a $1.4 billion endowment. Harvard chooses students who values the academic goals of morality, truth, and beauty. By teaching students how such goals are more important than profit and power, Harvard guarantees that its students will never repeat the criminal greed of U.S. corporations now in South Africa. Partisan agitation on the part of undergraduates is secondary to the achievement of a deeper understanding of ethics, science...