Word: select
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the game, exuberant Yale fans raised banners urging the National Invitational Tournament (NIT) to select their team for its postseason tournament...
Donato's honor is not the first that Drury has received in his history as a hockey player. The Greenough resident represented the United States on the 16-, 17- and 18-year-old Select teams in high school, and played with Harvard teammate Chuckie Hughes on the U.S. Junior National team in Helsinki last December...
Safire turned 60 in December, and he makes no secret of his ambition: 20 more years opining on deadline. "I have the greatest job in the world," he declares. "I'm free to write, to select my subject and say anything I want about the subject. That's freedom. Freedom's a big thing for me." The tribal bonds between Safire and the Times are intense. It is odd to recall the epithets that greeted his ill-timed arrival in the midst of Watergate; Safire's critics could not decide what was worse -- that he was a Nixon apologist...
...would Bush play such an opportunity? A G.O.P. dream scenario runs like this: Bush (obviously) avoids choosing a trustee of Planned Parenthood, but he does select a new Justice whose position is ambiguous enough to generate a mini-outcry from the pro-lifers. Then the former wimp sticks by his man (or woman), stands up to the antiabortion lobby and creates a political triumph that dwarfs even Panama...
...five-speaker surround-sound system. And it is ruinously easy to spend $10,000 to $50,000 re-creating an RKO theater in a suburban ranch home. Yet the number of consumers who are trying to do just that has launched a booming market for audio/video installers: entrepreneurs who select and hook up the latest gear, often using wall-mounted speakers and sleek cabinetry to hide the equipment. A glossy new magazine, Audio/ Video Interiors, regularly dazzles its readers with images of posh pleasure domes of sound and light. Says John Briesch, president of Sony's Consumer Products Group...