Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diagnosed "probable" Alzheimer's for 3% of those aged 65 to 74, 19% of the 75- to 84-year-olds and 47% of those 85 or older. The project was hailed as one of the first large surveys to go out into an ordinary community, as opposed to examining select populations in clinics or nursing homes. Some previous studies that did look at a community based their diagnoses on existing medical records, which are less reliable. By doing their own testing, the Harvard researchers may have picked up previously unrecognized cases...
When Abramson was a newly elected mayor and attending the conference, he said the best advice he got was that the most important member of his staff--and the person he had to select most carefully--was his appointment scheduler, because this would be the person deciding how he handled his time...
...American sports management company announced the plans for a football game to be held in Japan next month between a select group of Ivy League seniors and Japanese all-stars, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported last Friday...
...historian who has made L.B.J.'s saga into an obsession and virtually a life's work. Caro is one of the best known of a small breed of long-distance writers who appear from their orbits of research to offer big books on big subjects. Among others in the select group, most of whom tend to be, like Caro, journalist-scholars: Richard Kluger, author of the civil rights classic Simple Justice (1976), and J. Anthony Lukas, whose Common Ground (1985), a social history of ethnic Boston, was well worth the wait...
...North sponsored by Jesse Helms of North Carolina. But Helms was persuaded by Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden to expand the bill so that it would apply to all former military men convicted of similar crimes. If the House concurs, Congress will be favoring government pensions to a select group of convicted felons who served in the military. Not that Ollie needs the money. He earns an estimated $25,000 a speech...