Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million prison near Canon City. Convicts in Thomaston, Me., cannot keep up with demand for their sturdy hardwood furniture. A production line at Minnesota's Lino Lakes penitentiary repairs Toro Trimmer-Weeders, outperforming the company's own employees. Not all these employed prisoners are male; select inmates at the Colorado Women's Correctional Facility, for example, spend their days operating computers...
...future success of such projects depends in part on Washington. A major impetus has come from Free Venture, a program financed in seven states by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA). Now LEAA may fall victim to congressional budget cutting. Meantime Congress has at least directed LEAA to select seven test projects whose prison industries would be allowed to market their products beyond state lines. Sponsors hope this experiment will further the trend of private companies' subcontracting work to prison shops...
...have a candidate for poet laureate run on every presidential ticket? The poet would be granted a guarantee of immunity, like Lear's Fool, to criticize Government policy as he wishes. The plan might open up an interesting game: select the poet who goes with the President. Thus James Dickey probably would belong more with Lyndon Johnson than with Carter; Rod McKuen might be Carter's bard (although the President's favorite poet, officially, is Dylan Thomas). Ronald Reagan's lyricist might have been the late Oscar Hammerstein II; he would have to pick another. Eisenhower...
...final days before the Democratic Party was to select its candidate for President, Jimmy Carter moved impressively on two fronts to tighten his grip on the nomination. He cooled the uproar over his brother Billy with an impressive full-hour prime-time press conference and with a 99-page report to a Senate investigating subcommittee. At the same time, his aides were negotiating pre-convention compromises with Challenger Edward Kennedy's camp that reduced the danger of a grand old Democratic donnybrook this week in Madison Square Garden...
...Iranians had arrived in Queens after being imprisoned for a total of ten days following their arrest for disorderly conduct during a violent demonstration in Washington. They were allowed to select lawyers and to meet with a Muslim clergyman. And because it was Ramadan, the Islamic holy month that imposes fasting during the day, prison authorities established a special dining schedule, serving a meal just before sunrise and another after sunset. Even so, the prisoners went on a hunger strike and some eventually even had to be force...