Word: selection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bahamas are deeply entrenched, and Pindling's unproven party will have to win the confidence and respect of investors. A quiet, Nassau-born barrister who earned an LL.B. at the University of London, Pindling promises full-scale reforms that will benefit all instead of just a select minority. "There will be change in direction and emphasis on many fronts," he vowed last week in his drab little law office in downtown Nassau. Among the first changes will be a bill to provide salaries for members of the government...
...does not recognize select objection as a valid basis for a CO claim. Consequently, these Harvard CO's try to state their objection to war in terms absolute enough to satisfy the draft board while preserving enough of their situational ethic to satisfy their own integrity. This is a trick which involves sophistications of logic which most draft boards won't appreciate...
...through hard work and good intentions alone that Herter influenced postwar history. After the Truman Administration proposed the broad outlines of the Marshall Plan in June 1947, the Bostonian, then a Republican Congressman, proposed establishment of a House Special Select Committee on Foreign Aid and became its chairman. After two grueling months of surveying Western Europe's plight-Herter had directed the members to leave wives and tuxedos at home-the committee wrote a compelling, detailed report on what was needed to revive the prostrate continent. Above all, it was Herter's support and advocacy, along with Arthur...
...split in experience may have serious consequences, for, as a result of the student deferment and mental-physical standards, the selective service now forces a particular group of young people--the lower-middle class--to bear a disproportionate share of the burden. The deferment weeds out those who do not have the resources--mental, material, and motivational--to climb the dizzying ladder to "higher" education. The physical and intelligence criteria select out much of the lower class. As the Task Force on Manpower Conservation showed in its report One-Third of a Nation, at least a fifth of those rejected...
...first formally introduced in a book in 1608. Ninety years later, having mulled it over, Sir Christopher Wren guessed he was for it. In 1854, Gladstone said: "I cannot doubt it would be of immense advantage," but he decided not to make undue haste. In following decades came a select parliamentary committee, a royal commission, a Paris conference, three colonial conferences, and most recently a special committee of inquiry, all primarily devoted to the subject. Last week, after 358 years of careful thought, the British government formally announced its intention to decimalize the pound. Instead of consisting of 240 pennies...