Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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KUWAIT. Last week's election was called to select a 50-seat National Council that is supposed to develop guidelines for the future of Kuwaiti democracy. Kuwait has been without a parliament since 1986, when the ruling family suspended it. Nonetheless, ex-parliamentarians called for a boycott of the election because they believed the council would be powerless; although government candidates took all 50 seats, only 65% of the electorate voted...
They vote to double their levy on gasoline but only to pay for highways. -- North Carolina and Massachusetts Democrats select their candidates. -- Congressional cold warriors cling to their gospel, but the politics are dubious...
...this why Woody Allen might avoid roller coasters? Does Yo Yo Ma get carsick in a limo en route to the concert? That's not the point, according to Herrmann. With H.B.D.I. results in hand, a manager can select people with different ways of learning, who together will form "a composite whole brain," thus working more efficiently, and creatively...
...charged the Senate for several stays in a Minneapolis condominium he owned, and used Senate office-building space to make speeches for pay. Next week, barring a negotiated face-saving arrangement, the Senator will begin a two-week public ordeal -- a politically lethal hearing by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, which has found "substantial credible evidence" that Durenberger broke the rules...
...many continue to criticize Harmon's plan, which has students randomly assigned among one of four houses they select, as merely politically expedient, and not the best alternative...