Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BGLSA's role is very unclear. It depends on who you talk to," Roddy says. "Some believe it is not as political as it should be. It's also a comfort zone for a place people can be out to a select group and for people who are not sure...
...Extension School is essentially a continuing education program for about 14,000 area adults, most of whom hold full-time jobs while attending classes at Harvard in the afternoon and evening. For about 600 select students, however, the School offers Bachelor of Liberal Arts degrees, comparable to the Bachelor of Arts degree offered by the College...
...need to select not a sexton who will chair meetings and go home, but an active leader who knows you personally," he said, "and who knows where you sleep...
...Chicago team avoided this trap. Working with the school's National Opinion Research Center (NORC), the team began by using computers to select addresses at random. Then they chose which member of the household to interview, again at random. Next they rigorously trained a cadre of 220 interviewers on the delicate art of conducting a frank discussion of sex. "Our feeling was that you could get people to talk about anything if you approach them right," says Edward Laumann, a sociologist at the University of Chicago...
...physician and spiritual explorer, expounded New Age theories of child rearing and nutrition. But there were occasions when his audiences got a glimpse of a different Jouret, the would-be messiah who warned that the world would end soon in a convergence of environmental disasters and that only a select few would survive. Jouret liked to talk about the transformative power of fire: "We are in the reign of fire," he said on Swiss radio in 1987. "Everything is being consumed...