Word: selecter
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...tales of hard-pressed people, few are more tragic than the history of affliction borne by the Indians of the U.S. Years of reservation life have left many of them mired in poverty and despair. In Washington the Senate's Select Committee on Indian Affairs is holding hearings on the general state of Indian problems, and they seem to be no better than ever: a high rate of alcoholism and mortality, desperate health conditions, low employment and income, rampant child abuse. Bad enough that years of failed policies administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs have contributed to the difficulties...
...view is hardly the ultimate in TV technology, but it may be an idea whose time has finally come. Conventional pay-cable channels, like HBO and Showtime, offer viewers a smorgasbord of programming for one monthly fee. Pay- per-view instead gives viewers a chance to select from a menu, paying only for the programs they want to see. Prices typically range from $4 or $5 for recent movies to $15 or $20 for concerts and sport events. Pay-per-view is still a pint-size player in the TV marketplace: only 11 million TV homes (out of 90.4 million...
According to Garraway, Hinton joins select company with his December victory. Past competition-winners include cellist Yo Yo Ma '76 and pianist Ursula Oppens...
MacDonald insisted he was innocent of charges raised during recent hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, and pleaded with the 88- member Navajo council to let him retain his salary and to give him legal help as he fights to clear his name. When the council refused to grant him these conditions, MacDonald vowed that he would not vacate his elective position after all. The council then voted to place MacDonald on indefinite leave, with pay. The Navajos had never before questioned the conduct of one of their chairmen, assuming each had only the best interests...
Among the millions of photographs taken every day, a select few will rank as great photojournalism. An even tinier category will merit appreciation as fine art. Those are the images that intrigue associate editor Richard Lacayo, who serves as TIME's photography critic besides writing in the magazine's Nation section. Years before Lacayo decided to pursue an English major at Cornell, he became fascinated with photography when he picked up a secondhand volume of Henri Cartier-Bresson's work at a neighborhood bookshop on New York's Long Island. "I was about 14 years old," says Lacayo...