Word: selective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...priced, slow-footed dreams deferred that will retire without a single trip to the post. But if the pie is quite high in the sky, the tax shelters are very down to earth, so the wealthy gather every July in Keeneland and Lexington for the Keeneland and Fasig-Tipton Select Summer Yearling Sales. Dripping jewels and dropping the names of noble bloodlines-both human and equine-they have spent nearly $35 million this year on 623 unnamed, untried colts and fillies...
...consider Rodney Cline Carew, the best damn hitter in baseball. He is the only man of his generation with the gifts-and the hard-won mastery of the art of hitting-to have a shot at joining the select club of the .400 hitters, which includes Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Rogers Hornsby, Harry Heilmann and Bill Terry. In an era when batters must contend with night games and coast-to-coast jet lag -handicaps that the oldtimers never faced-the intense first baseman of the Minnesota Twins was hitting .402 last week and had been...
...shrewdness and harshness eventually garner her more than grace and beauty alone would have. Elesina becomes Ivy's protegee, or more accurately, her obsession, and together they fabricate the credentials necessary to enter the upper echelons of New York society. Ivy becomes an unwanted but tolerated member of the select world but Elesina, after her dramatic and scandalous entrance, becomes first a secure part of high society and then one of its sovereigns. The Dark Lady is the story of Elesina's rise and conquests, which take place primarily within, and at the expense of the Stein family...
...time for [his opponents] to recognize who the enemies are-the operators." But Runner-Up Patterson, a onetime Boyle crony, criticized the way that the ballot was set up; his supporters had to mark nine different boxes to vote for his candidates, while Miller's backers could select the entire presidential slate by checking only one box. But U.M.W. officials ruled that Patterson failed to line up a complete slate and thus did not qualify for the single-box provision. Since Patterson commands heavy support on the U.M.W.'s executive board, he may be able to force...
...added that he will begin a review of candidates for the job early next month, and will select the new athletic director himself instead of reconstituting the search committee that had been charged with nominating a candidate...