Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry George M. Whitesides '60 is a long shot at best because sources in the administration have indicated that Rudenstine will not select a scientist. He has already appointed a chemist, Houghton Professor of Chemistry Jeremy R. Knowles, to an-other top University post, the Faculty deanship...
...bedroom community, are testing a futuristic cable-television service that is years ahead of conventional systems. Linked by 2,500 miles of hair-thin optical fiber, the network not only offers 78 channels of TV but also lets subscribers browse through the Sears catalog, check their bank accounts and select from a large menu a movie of their choice anytime they want. Perhaps most surprising is the builder of the sophisticated TV system: the local telephone company, GTE. Says Betty: "I thought the only thing phone and cable companies had in common was that they both dig up the streets...
...Only a select few in the Harvard community can enjoy the TV. Entrance to swanky Shad Hall is limited to card-carrying Business School affiliates--about 1,200 students and 260 faculty members...
...policy is unlikely to have much impact on the boat-people traffic. (In its petition to the court, the government claimed improbably that 20,000 Haitians stand poised to flee.) "While a positive development, it has to be seen as an in-house rescue program for a select few," says Arthur Helton, director of the refugee program run by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in New York City. It also remains uncertain how an embassy operating with only a skeleton crew -- most staff members have been withdrawn since the coup -- will process all of the claims...
...will hold a second series of elections nextThursday, when members will select representativesto the Harvard Foundation and the RadcliffeTrustees