Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very difficult to justify giving a select number of people raises when you're dealing out furloughs to others," Havern said. "It just plain doesn't make sense...
Allowing students to select which subjects to explore within a given discipline is far better than requiring standard introductory courses for all first-year students. Not only would a battle over the content of a "Harvard canon" be vicious, but the outcome would be undesirable. It would force students to take classes they do not want to take and read texts many of them have already read. For professors, teaching such classes would be a chore rather than a chance to teach classes in their own areas of expertise, and their teaching would be less inspired...
...protesters said the Program for Senior Officials in National Security, which provides instruction, room and board for select members of the national security community of the United States and other nationas, ties the Kennedy School to the Pentagon...
...timing almost seemed designed for minimum exposure, like putting a rerun of Nova up against Cheers. The day the whole world was watching the gulf war end was the moment the Senate Select Committee on Ethics chose to issue its long-delayed report on the Keating Five. The committee found that only the aged, ailing California Senator Alan Cranston, 76, had engaged in "impermissible conduct" in which "fund raising and official activities ! were substantially linked." The case of the Keating One will be referred to the whole Senate for possible action. The other four are officially off the hook...
...Wednesday, March 13, all 1600 rising sophomores must select and submit a list of their four favorite houses, as part of the annual housing lottery...