Word: selective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balance. Although the new curriculum provides more structure than the existing General Education Program, the core itself will take up only a quarter of the entire undergraduate program, and the students will be free to choose among several courses in each required category. In addition, undergraduates will continue to select their own concentration and will have a quarter of their courses reserved for free elective choice...
...computer will select for audit at least 5 million tax returns this year, but the agency lacks the money and manpower to scrutinize all of these. So, as any business would, the IRS concentrates on the 2 million or so returns that seem to offer the greatest potential for "profit." To start, it listens to informers, and if their tips prove to be accurate, can reward them with up to 10% of the extra taxes seized. "Thousands of tips are received every year, and quite a few are generated by a get-even motive," says IRS Spokesman Wilson Fadely. Jilted...
...addition to all that, the IRS computers this year will select for audit, purely at random, 42,000 returns, or about one in 2,000, in order to develop a statistical profile of all taxpayers. The incomes of these audited taxpayers will range from the lowest to the highest; anyone is vulnerable. These audits will give the IRS the top-secret norms for deductions against which all returns will be judged...
Silber denied the charge, maintaining that a "joke" he made at a 1973 meeting of the B.U. board of trustees' Select Committee on University Needs had been misinterpreted...
Meanwhile, the coaches who select All-Ivy hockey team have got to be as blind as some of the dates I've been on. While this was definitely not Harvard's year on the ice by any stretch of the garter belt, leaving the names of George Hughes and John Hynes off the All-League roster is like saying the floor at Father's Six isn't sticky on Thursday nights...