Word: select
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...avoid the sorts of errors in judgment that have embroiled him in controversy over his financial ethics. In 1989 he was fined $30,000 by the Federal Election Commission for accepting illegal corporate donations during his 1984 Senate campaign. Gramm was also investigated, and later absolved, by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics over a land deal in the mid-1980s in which the owner of a soon-to-fail Texas S&L undercharged him for work on Gramm's vacation house in Maryland...
...propose new legislation to crack down on this so-called academic freedom before the corruption spreads to the surrounding areas. (The Communists took over Cambridge long ago.) So long as these universities receive federal funds, the Secretary of Defense shall select their students, teach their courses and choose the ice cream flavor of the day. No more talk about diversity or any of those other liberal bywords. That only lets anarchists infiltrate our sacred halls...
Terry V. Castro, producer of baked goodness, invited me in. I was flattered to be one of the select few deemed worthy of entering the subterranean world of Harvard Dining Services. After showcasing all the equipment, Terry nurtured my ego back to health with fresh donuts...
...meantime, you (the viewer) can save up to purchase any of the fine gifts offered in R.J. Reynolds' Select Trading Company Catalogue. It all began with Camel Cash, but maybe you find yourself maturing, turning away from cartoon genitalia. You are older, in need of more domestic domestic items like coffee mugs, commemorative tobacco tins, and large quantities of red meat, delivered right to your door. That's right, three pounds of fully cooked baby back ribs, if the smoke don't kill you, the fat intake will. But wait, there's more ! You also get free 650 Select proofs...
...mountains' majesty and amber waves of...tobacco. We hear the voice-over of a man, a simple farmer; we'll call him Merle: "Some things jes git better with time..." (more Copelandesque strains) Merle goes on to describe the painstaking process by which the "tobacco smooth enough to be Select" is cultivated and packaged. We follow the camera through Merle's tobacco fields to his barn, where another man cuts and dries the tobacco leaves. The crop will become Wintson Select's "Perfectly Aged Tobacco," rolled into cigarettes and smoked by hardy consumers who will eventually get cancer...