Word: selections
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...group's subsequent invasion of the American media has exposed the Monty Python brand of humor to a large number of comedy consumers in the U.S. Gone is the thrill of belonging to a select cult based on its privileged initiation into the artistic pleasures of a little-known comedy troupe. Thanks to a deluge of Monty Python re-runs on the boob tube, the re-release of their many records at regular prices (as opposed to the exorbitant prices of imported discs), and three uneven movies, the Monty Python material has become an all-too-familiar sound to these...
Another imbalance exists in the types of stories newsmen select to cover, Freed said. While a "flashy story, such as South Korean Tong Sun Park's alleged bribing of Congressmen, receives a lot of coverage, a more important story, such as American troop withdrawal from Korea, receives comparatively little," he said...
Trying to make primaries shorter and more select...
...convincing executives that the Administration now loves them and wants to help them will take a hard selling job by Carter. The Administration's priorities, while clear enough, are emphatically not those that businessmen would select. Most executives are frightened by inflation, fear that it may bring an end to the expansion in a year or two despite Carter's tax cuts, and think the President should crack down on it by cutting federal spending and the budget deficit more than he intends. Businessmen and economists, like Murray Weidenbaum, a member of the TIME Board of Economists, consider his anti...
Local prosecutors select their career violators using individual systems. Louisville targets suspects with two previous felony convictions or five arrests. Washington concentrates on parolees who are arrested again, for a crime of violence; Detroit zeros in on three-time offenders charged with murder, rape, household burglary and armed robbery. Boston uses a "case evaluation form," based on a ten-point penalty system. Penalty points are given for brutality, use of firearms, parole or bail status at the time of the crime, and even strength of the evidence against the suspect. Any suspect who gets ten points or more gets...