Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proceeded to select an album and bring it to the counter. After disengaging myself from my weighty baggage claim check, I pulled out my Visa card and presented it to the attendant...
...discovered one of the more pleasant aspects of my job last week when I met with a select group of young men and women on the 48th floor of our New York City headquarters for the second annual presentation of TIME's College Achievement Awards. They were 18 of the 20 winners of $2,500 scholarships and more than half of the 80 finalists, who each received $250, in an intense competition to select this year's outstanding U.S. college juniors. After joining me in congratulating them, TIME Managing Editor Jason McManus warned them of the challenges ahead. "Competent...
They also collected nearly $75,000 apiece as the loser's share in the World Series, but the bonus money went to a select group. A handful of players, like Bob Stanley, were so ashamed of the team vote in sharing the money that they dug into their own pockets to reward such people as clubhouse attendants. ground crew members and parking lot attendants...
...Navy's director of long-term planning (a new three-star job would have required congressional confirmation, an impossibility now). Sometime in mid-June, he will face what, for a man of his reclusive temperament, might seem the worst ordeal of all: testifying before television cameras for the congressional select committees investigating Iranscam. And though he will be granted limited immunity, there is still a possibility that Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh may ask a grand jury to indict him on the basis of evidence gathered before the congressional questioning begins. Rumors swirl around Washington that John Poindexter...
...high-level Friday afternoon meeting that included Cabinet members. Shultz did not even wait to consult with Reagan before taking the unprecedented step of shutting down all sensitive electronic communications with the Moscow embassy. U.S. diplomatic posts around the world are now transmitting Moscow-bound traffic to Frankfurt, where select courier teams are on call to hand-carry material to the Soviet capital. Within the embassy, secretaries have been forbidden to use any machine that emits electronic signals, including electric typewriters and word processors. Even the Xerox machine has been shut down. Shultz has already asked Congress for a special...