Word: selecter
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...performance on the Senate floor last week was no better. On Monday, summoned to debate the diaries, Senators listened to Packwood deliver a rambling, ranting soliloquy that basically charged the committee with prying into his private life. Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski countered, "We are not the Senate Select Committee on Voyeurism." When the droning debate tied up Senate business for a second full day, legislators grew impatient. Finally Tuesday evening, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia implored his embattled colleague to sacrifice himself for the larger good: "None of us is without flaws. But when those flaws damage the institution...
...addition, Nicholas T. Mitropoulos, executive director of the Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government, is reportedly among those helping Menino select the members of the transition team...
Another oversight of Proposition 174 involved the issue of transportation. School choice allows parents to select schools from a wide variety of geographic locations with considerable commuting distances. In the interests of equity and fairness, the state should eliminate the artificial barrier of excessive transportation cost by providing tax credits to the parents who pay transportation costs out-of-pocket...
...with a cap placed upon a 60-mile radius from the voucher school, for example. Those commuting 0-30 miles might receive one fixed amount of tax credit, and those commuting 30-60 miles another. This fixed-income form of payment would encourage carpooling and create an incentive to select the cheapest available means of transportation...
...election also drew a select group of committed citizens who spent a day running the polling operation...