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Word: selecter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process, Apple (worldwide sales: $6.3 billion) has joined a select group of American companies that have debunked the myth of Japan as a fortress impenetrable to outside products. But cracking the Japanese market has had deeper significance for the California-based company: with profit margins steadily shrinking in the personal-computer business, CEO John Sculley has set out to expand Apple's business into advanced consumer electronics like CD-ROM players and personal digital assistants (PDAs), far more powerful versions of the electronic pocket diaries developed by Japan's Casio and Sharp. Sculley believes Apple has a key advantage because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Byting Japan | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...number of those "discrepancies" has been reduced to 135, but that was not the issue last week. At hearings of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, its chairman, Democratic Senator John Kerry, wanted to know whether the Nixon Administration had pulled out in full knowledge that U.S. servicemen were still being held prisoner. Melvin Laird and James Schlesinger, who both served as Secretary of Defense during 1973, said they thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unending War | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

Students and administrators met last weekend in an attempt to decide what criteria should be used to select the next president of Yale University...

Author: By Daniel M. Steinman, NEWSPAPER AND WIRE SERVICE REPORTS | Title: News From the Nation's Colleges | 10/2/1992 | See Source »

...Institute of Politics basically puts together intellectually stimulating programs and permits a select bunch of students to hobnob with the most outstanding group of unemployed people in the world. The U.C., on the other hand, deals with issues, however insignificant, that are focused on the Harvard campus. In addition, the council, as opposed to the other political groups, is accountable to the entire Harvard undergraduate population...

Author: By Adam D. Taxin, | Title: Taking the Council Seriously? | 10/2/1992 | See Source »

Newsweek said its spotlighted elitists are "as different as the nation itself." The Harvard representatives span the spectrum of the select...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Harvard Breeds Cultural Elite | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

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