Word: select
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their private accomplices are fabricating vicious lies every day to confuse the American people." Round and round go the revelations, reports, allegations, rumors, until Reagan and his aides must be wondering when and if they will ever stop. The answer probably is: not until the select investigating committees finally lay the whole story bare in public. The President at his long-awaited news conference may have put some of the more obvious questions to rest, less by answering them conclusively than by demonstrating that any further discussion would only spin in repetitious circles...
Simons will select the Latin American fellows with the input and advice of American journalists that have worked in South America, he said...
...land obtained through the 1956 bequest of Trustun Beale, the center has a library containing 44,000 volumes ad it entirely supported by revenue from the nearly $10 million endowment. The center is directed by an administrative staff of senior fellows drawn from universities throughout the world. These scholars select eight junior fellows who live and study on the grounds for one year, receiving a stipend...
...Free Market Foundation, and Kendall, editor of a conservative newsletter, offer a libertarian plan that favors the least possible government and the freest possible enterprise. They point out, however, that their own preferences need not be accepted, since the cantonal system would allow residents of each local unit to select by vote the system they prefer. "All the existing political parties and movements would be likely to come to power somewhere," Louw says. "Then we'll be able to see what works...
...have stubbornly refused to discuss their roles in the weapons sales to Iran and the secret funding of the Nicaraguan contras, invoking their Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. Last week the arrangements for forcing the silent partners to talk led to a clash between the Senate Select Committee and Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh...