Word: selective
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...Types of natural selection. When an organism grows continuously in a relatively constant environment natural selection has a stabilizing effect, weeding out the variants that deviate too far in any direction from the well adapted norm. But when the environment is changed the same basic process of natural selection has a diversifying effect: the new circumstances select for the preferential survival and reproduction of variants with increased fitness for those circumstances. This Darwinian process explains a phenomenon that confused early workers: when pathogenic bacterial strains are isolated from infected hosts and then repeatedly transferred in artificial culture media they often...
...Viet Nam-era draft evaders who were not involved in violent antiwar acts (see story page 15). He also issued a statement urging Americans to save energy by turning down their thermostats to 65° F. in the daytime and even lower at night. Carter found time to select the desk he will use in the Oval Office: made of oak timbers from the British ship Resolute, and a present to President Rutherford Hayes from Queen Victoria, it was last used by John Kennedy...
...paper and began reading from it. "It is now clear," he said, "that a substantial portion of the U.S. Senate and the intelligence community is not yet ready to accept as director of Central Intelligence an outsider who believes as I believe." As the 15 members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence visibly stiffened, Sorensen went on to announce that he was withdrawing his nomination. The battle was over before it had really been joined...
...back up his besieged riot police. For one of the few times in his six-year administration, Sadat was apparently stunned and frightened by the violence of the Egyptian masses. On the drive from a helicopter pad to his office, his swift-moving convoy was guarded by three select commando battalions and two armored units from the Egyptian army. Cairo's streets were swept clean for the move, a rare decision for a President who up to now has ecstatically been hailed among his people...
...Dirty Linen, a topical headline scandal has caught Stoppard's fancy. A campaign of sinnuendo has been launched in the British press implying that almost all the Members of Parliament are guilty of illicit sexual hanky-panky. A select committee of the House of Commons has been appointed to investigate the charges...