Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike cities where mayors are popularly elected, Cambridge's mayor is elected every two years from among the ranks of the nine-member city council Russell's vacant council seat must be filled before the entire group can select the next mayor...
...public schools, the bill's chief sponsor, State Senator Donald Holmes, replied, "No, I did not have no other purpose in mind." That, said Stevens, "is not consistent with the established principle that the government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion," allowing an individual "to select any religious faith or none...
...years of the BBC's weekly Desert Island Discs, a radio program famous for attracting such celebrities as Princess Margaret and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for intimate, homey chats; of a heart attack; in London. Plomley's formula was unvarying: he asked each of his 1,791 guests to select eight recordings, one book and one luxury for an indefinite stay on a desert island. Princess Margaret's picks included Rule Britannia; Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer; and Sixteen Tons sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford...
Overseer Saul G. Cohen '37, a chemistry professor at Brandeis University in Waltham who sits on the Advisory Committee, says he "puts in a great deal of time" and has no qualms about helping select the degree recipients. The Overseers and the Corporation have final say over the choices, according to Cohen and Anne M. Morgan, another member of the Board...
...academic performance. One wishes the author had further developed this point, for it is a crucial one. It is indeed difficult to imagine few more pressing social problems than how we select our future elite--both effectively and fairly. Klitgaard superbly addresses the practical problems of effective choice. But if the net result of this effort is an affirmation of a flawed status quo, then, one wonders, why bother...