Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joined this year by a second Penney's outlet, the store invited the state's department of social services to select children who were willing and able to take a gamble. They were brought to the stores, decked out in the latest spring fashions, given tips on modeling and sent onstage. The audience, including an invited group of prospective parents, got a chance to size up the kids and obtain information on the applications and processing...
...University of California's Berkeley campus, where students used to major in telling the Establishment where to get off, know how to give the college administration a Maalox moment. Last July more than 100 faculty members who call themselves the Berkeley Art Project launched a nationwide contest to select a fitting monument to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, which paved the way for radical political activity and violent anti-Vietnam War protests on the campus...
Despite the loss, four Crimson players were named to the New England Select Side--Morris, Williams, Prop Kiernan Ignacio and Wing Yolanda Lewis...
...spying business. In both capitals, intelligence circles are exploring new ways of gleaning information and emphasizing the prudence of increasing their budgets and staffs. Both agencies are discussing how to redirect funds and manpower to meet fresh challenges. Says Oklahoma's Democratic Senator David Boren of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: "As the arms race is winding down, the spy race is heating...
...University's governing boards select the speaker--a process traditionally shrouded in secrecy. Members of the boards would not comment on who would replace Havel as the speaker, but an announcement is expected soon...