Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first shot not only killed Luis Donaldo Colosio, the ruling party's handpicked successor to Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, but it also crippled the confidence of a country striving to enter the select company of First World nations. The murder was the latest blow in a year that has . brought violent rebellion, economic uncertainty and political disruption to a land whose citizens believed they had achieved peace and stability. Mexicans grieved not just for Colosio but for themselves and a future they now viewed with trepidation. In the weeks ahead, they will discover whether their institutions and maturity...
...while most Harvard students interrupted during dinner this week were discussing paper topics or the latest house gossip, a few select tables were engaging in an equally hallowed Harvard tradition: griping about the food...
Last week Woolsey seemed to get the message. He emerged briefly from a two- hour grilling by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to announce that the Ames debacle was being treated not "as a single episode or incident but as a serious problem." Some Congressmen suspected, however, that Woolsey, like past CIA directors, might merely be angling to head off legislative interference in the agency's internal matters. Warned one Congressman: "We are headed for a confrontation...
Hillary Rodham Clinton has never had much use for the national press corps, but by late last week, when the pressure for her to tell what she knew about Whitewater was rattling the very walls of the White House, she finally agreed to let select reporters through the door. It was her first news interview in weeks, and her first ever devoted to Whitewater, but this was no charm offensive: she met her guests from TIME not in the customary spots -- the solarium or the family quarters -- but in a combat zone, the Map Room where Franklin Roosevelt plotted troop...
...documents that appeared to have come from the files of Foster, whose legal work on behalf of the Clintons included handling the sale of their parts of the Whitewater acreage. The story was denied by representatives of the firm, who had some logic on their side: Would they select a part-time college kid to deep-six something really damaging when they could have done the deed themselves? That flap followed in the wake of a Washington Post report that Hubbell was the subject of an internal investigation by his old firm into alleged overbilling of clients, including...