Word: selecter
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Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, who has announced he will step down next year and is widely mentioned as a possible appointee in a Dukakis administration, made the transition from dean to political mogul last night. He was among the select guests of the Dukakis family seated in a VIP box located to the side of the podium. Allison and the Dukakis family and entourage, which numbered approximately 50, were joined in the box by the families of vice presidential candidate Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen, Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Kirk, and a rotating set of speakers, such...
Departing from the pack, Peterson said heconsidered it likely that Bush would select arelatively popular governor from a large state,such as governors Thomas Kean of New Jersey,George Deukmejian of California or James Thompsonof Illinois
...then there is the alternative. George Bush--and what he could do to Blacks. In order to satisfy his right-wing support, Bush would probably have to select a conservative Supreme Court justice. And with the possibility of several openings on an aging court, the prospect of twelve years of Reagan-Bush judicial appointments is scary...
...Moscow party boss, from the Politburo earlier this year, Gorbachev was protecting one flank. When he later chastised Yegor Ligachev, a Politburo member regarded as the country's leading conservative, Gorbachev was guarding the other flank. "Left-wing phrasemaking is the wrong medicine," Gorbachev said during the meeting to select Moscow's conference delegation. But in the same speech he blamed "inertia and old-style methods of management through command and pressure" for failures in the economy. In other words, the fault lay with both sides, and he was a clear-eyed St. George prepared to slay the dragons...
Most of the University's professors do not have the opportunity to live in the traditional yellow Sparks House or Bok's mansion on Elmwood Ave. The select few professors who become house masters also inhabit grand houses designed for entertaining, but the remainder must face the perils of the Cambridge housing market...