Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Army ravages Cite Soleil, a Port-au-Prince slum that police are afraid to enter: the last time they did, a shoot-out claimed the lives of several innocent bystanders. In La Saline members of a local vigilante patrol discover the dead body of their leader. They swiftly select four suspected "robbers" and beat them to death. Then they set fire to 50 houses where they decide robbers are sheltered...
...investment bankers select candidates for IPOs only after careful scrutiny. "We turn down many more companies than we take public," Case says. But Case had few doubts about either Pixar or Netscape, whose executives he had known for years. Hambrecht eagerly teamed with fellow bankers to buy up all the offered shares of both companies and then staged nationwide "road shows" to tout the stock to big investors like mutual funds. The tours generated so much excitement that Netscape, which had been tentatively priced at $12 to $14 a share, went public at $28. Hambrecht's profit for co-managing...
YOUR ARTICLE ILLUSTRATED A MAJOR problem in the way we select the American President. Many voters tend to concentrate on a single issue and choose for office a candidate who embodies that lone ideal. However, the President has many roles to play, and when a candidate is selected because he embraces a certain policy, he can disappoint the public on other, less prominent policies. Single-issue voters are often surprised by the direction things take after they vote a President into office, when they learn his entire agenda. JOSEPH ROTUNDA San Antonio, Texas Via E-mail...
Observers have speculated that Dole will select Whitman as a running mate if he receives the Republican nomination...
...criteria used to select the fellows include political experience, past leadership roles and an interest in interacting with students and faculty, Donovan says...