Word: select
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right after the elections, the L.D.P. announced that it would select a new leader by ballot rather than through the kind of back-room parleying that brought Noboru Takeshita and Sousuke Uno to power. While party members nominated three candidates, senior power brokers reverted to habit and backed Kaifu, a faceless and seemingly malleable Diet member, as Prime Minister...
...published in a very short time if the circle of scholars were enlarged." That is prevented by a system of control that dates from the early discoveries in what was then part of Jordan. After rapid publication of the first finds by Israelis, Jordan authorized creation of a select group of antiquities experts, all Christians, with exclusive rights to study and publish the rest of the manuscripts. The favored scholars assigned the various texts among themselves. As for the scrolls, some eventually went on display at West Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book, but most ended up in the Rockefeller...
...What is interesting about this operation is that we take anyone who walks in and that we are in the business of showing that people who self-select to come here do very well in courses that are not different in their level of rigor from term-time courses," Buck says...
Hazelwood was one of a select group of around 15 classmates chosen to work for Esso, as Exxon was then called. As a third mate, he earned $24,000, extraordinary pay for a young man starting out in 1968. Hazelwood, who by then preferred to be called Joe, reported for duty on the Esso Florence in Wilmington, N.C. His seafaring instincts made an instant impression. "Joe had what we old-timers refer to as a seaman's eye," recalls Steve Brelsford, a retired Exxon captain and Hazelwood's first boss. "He had that sixth sense about seafaring that enables...
Piercy chooses the easy--and uninteresting--way out of the conflicts she creates between her characters. Her supposedly unconventional protagonists select the most conventional of solutions. The novel would have been more interesting if Dinah had chosen not to take another lover, or if Piercy had established a more credible foundation for the relationship between Laurie and Jimmy...