Word: select
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Gates may soon discover that the same techniques that helped him survive before have left him open to attack now. The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which this week began hearings on the Gates nomination, has been looking into his performance both as CIA deputy director for intelligence under William Casey between 1982 and 1986 and as chairman of the interagency National Intelligence Council during much of the same period. In those twin jobs Gates was responsible for the integrity of the analytical reports that the CIA and NIC produced. Yet a number of current and former U.S. intelligence officers...
That's one reason why the stakes are unusually high this week as the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence conducts hearings on George Bush's choice of Robert Gates, the Deputy National Security Adviser, to be the next director of the CIA. Whoever holds that job will have to put the sprawling intelligence community on a new path and defend the agency against critics who are calling for it to be downsized or disassembled...
...Senate Select Committee on Ethics is not known for speedy action or exemplary justice. In February the committee closed the books on four of the five Senators accused of intervening with federal regulators on behalf of failed S&L boss and campaign contributor Charles Keating Jr. However, the members continued to dither over what to do about the fifth Senator, Democrat Alan Cranston of California, who allegedly got $984,000 in Keating campaign gifts for helping with the Feds. Last week, angered at the slow pace of the 18-month probe, North Carolina's Republican Senator Jesse Helms released...
Repeated studies of grade-schoolers have highlighted their staggering abhorrence of fat. Shown drawings of an obese child and children with various disabilities, they were asked whom they would select to be their friend. The obese child always came in last. Perhaps as their elders become a bit more forgiving of excess pounds and ampler figures, American youngsters will pick...
...pool, "it is to the male advantage to fertilize as many females as possible, as quickly as possible and as efficiently as possible." For the female, however, who looks at the large investment she will have to make in the offspring, the opposite is true. Her concern is to "select" who "will provide the best set up for their offspring." So, in general, "the pressure is on the male to be aggressive and on the female...