Word: selecter
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...becoming one of that select group of athletes known everywhere by just one name--"Magic"--Johnson led the Los Angeles Lakers to five NBA titles and helped lift the league to unprecedented success...
...choice programs present a barrier to the goal of an integrated society. Certainly American schools and neighborhoods are already largely segregated. Poorly planned choice systems will reverse the progress toward integration made in the last 30 years: White parents will avoid schools with significant minority populations. Popular schools will select students they perceive as less likely to cause problems, which may mean choosing whites over minorities. The effect will be a systematic resegregation of many districts...
Before his death, President Kennedy was so certain of trouncing Barry Goldwater in 1964 that he issued strict instructions to his staff: Don't spook the scenario. Don't say anything that might encourage the Republicans to select someone else. Today, as Democrats around the country salivate at the possibility of New York Governor Mario Cuomo heading their 1992 ticket, George Bush's aides cannot contain their glee. "What a simple campaign it would be," says Rich Bond, the Bush adviser who knows Cuomo best. "Roger Ailes already has the TV spots conceived. Pictures of decaying streets; rotting buildings...
...country and would do nothing to help the 17 million jobless Americans. The supply-side economics that Bush preaches, as Presidential candidate Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa says, belongs in the "trash bin of history, along with communism." Both economic doctrines, which purport to help everyone, serve only a select sliver of society; the rest suffer...
Memory's workings are equally complex on the psychological level. "We see things in a context. We select what we observe, and then we may distort that for a purpose," says neuropsychiatrist David Spiegel of Stanford University. Events can be altered, even as they occur, simply through lack of attention. What is not seen, heard or smelled will not register in the brain. For example, a man might remember being introduced to a woman he finds attractive, but she might not have any memory of him if she did not consider him appealing...