Word: selecter
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Each ScanFone unit, which can also function as a regular telephone, features a magnetic-stripe credit card reader and a light pen to scan bar codes. After selecting groceries, customers punch in a delivery time, run a credit card through the magnetic reader and await delivery. On the retailer's end, a computer registers the order and professional shoppers hit the aisles, instructed to select the best cuts of meat and the freshest vegetables and fruits for ScanFoners. If successful, the system is expected to serve 16 cities by June...
There are many reasons to be skeptical about Kalugin's story. For one thing, he has given conflicting versions of the year in which the questioning took place. Investigators for the Senate's Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs are nonetheless eager to question Kalugin, who may appear before the committee this week. In addition, the committee's chairman, Democrat John Kerry of Massachusetts, and its ranking Republican, Bob Smith of New Hampshire, said they may travel to Moscow to ask Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Russian republic, to open the KGB files on POWs...
...Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs has begun its own effort to close the books -- or open them more fully -- on the MIA issue. During a 14- month inquiry that is expected to cost $1.9 million, the committee hopes to establish whether any American servicemen are alive in Southeast Asia, as well as make recommendations for ways in which the government can improve its process for resolving unsettled cases...
...returned with cupcakes, Sutherland protested, "How come Father Jenco got a big cake, and I only get cupcakes?" Jenco insists Sutherland's distress was real. On rare occasions, tensions erupted in hostility, such as the well-known episode in September 1985, when captors invited a group of hostages to select among themselves who should go free. Anderson and Jacobsen nearly came to blows over the sweepstakes, which Weir won -- by the captors' choice...
After 22 months of shilly-shallying, partisan bickering and overblown rhetoric, the Senate Select Committee on Ethics finally punished the last of the Keating Five. Last week the committee reprimanded California Democrat Alan Cranston, who accepted $850,000 in contributions from financier Charles Keating while interceding on his behalf with bank regulators who were trying to seize Keating's failing savings and loan...