Word: selected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Selection at the right tail--the central issue of the book--is fraught with difficulties and contradictions. What, first of all, ought to be the objective of selection? To say that universities ought to select the "best" possible students is nothing but a platitude. How should merit be defined? As Klitgaard points out, at universities today "merit" is not simply confined to academic merit as measured by grades and test scores. Leadership, motivation, and diversity of background and race are all among the criteria schools consider in selecting their members...
...nobody's business but mine and the committee's what books we select," said a testy Kurt Vonnegut Jr., who headed the selection committee. John Macrae III, chairman of the IFP, noted that "the important thing here is the principle of the government trying to have a hand in the choosing of books for exhibition, not what books are selected." The books were supposed to reflect the diversity of opinion in America. That goal has been duly accomplished -- if not by the list, at least by the debate about...
...Rare Napa Valley vintages? Bavarian lagers? No. This is High Sobriety, a "beverage boutique" in a North Dallas shopping center, which stocks and serves a storeful of nonalcoholic liquid refreshers. Here are such unspiked delights as Calistoga sparkling water from California, Chateau Yaldara (a sparkling spumante) from Australia, Texas Select "beer," and Carl Jung "Champagne" from West Germany with no kick at all. Cheers! And welcome to the water generation...
...Washington, the Democratic majority on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence blocked yet another Administration proposal to provide $28 million of U.S. military assistance in the next fiscal year for the 15,000 contras battling the Managua regime. Efforts by Republican committee members to revive the funding for nonmilitary purposes were also defeated...
...crowd just glitters under the lights," says Tatum. Jewelry winks as hands make notations on the little cards provided with gold-tasseled pencils. Houston is a show-and-tell city. It loves to gossip, and for every woman sitting in the select, reservations-only audience who prefers to remain anonymous, there are two others eager to talk about run-around husbands, face- . lifts and other people's problematic origins. The biographical tid-bits always begin with husbands: past, present and future. For most of these women, their husbands are their careers. The sober choice of expensive clothes is important...