Word: selective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Undaunted, Bolles also attacked Emprise Corp., a notorious sports enterprise controlled by Buffalo, N.Y.. interests that had gained control of Arizona horse and dog racing tracks. He became so expert on the intricacies of Emprise operations in Arizona that in 1972 he became a witness before the Select Committee on Crime of the U.S. House of Representatives...
Nobody would claim that the primary process illuminates all the major presidential attributes in character and intellect. It does not tell much about the all-important ability to select and attract talent; primary campaigns can go a long way (Carter, Reagan) with surprisingly small staffs of home-state intimates...
...Representative John Brademas (D., Ind.), LL.D., chairman of the House Subcommittee on Select Education. For sticking to your faith in education regardless of the political weather...
...while it looked as if all the investigations, all the headlines, all the public agonizing over U.S. intelligence abuses would come to nothing. The vexing question was whether the 15-month inquiry conducted by Frank Church's Senate Select Committee would lead to the creation of a truly effective congressional committee with oversight powers on the intelligence agencies. But for the efforts of a few Senators who dug in their heels-Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Government Operations Committee Chairman Abraham Ribicoff and California's Alan Cranston among them -the answer might well have been an emphatic...
...Italian accent is heavy and rich. At Richard-Ginori, customers select chinaware priced from $20 to $700 per place setting. Fashion Designer Valentino Garavani, whose ready-to-wear cocktail dresses can cost $800, has turned his Fifth Avenue boutique into an identical triplet of his Rome and Milan extravaganzas-all mirrors, brass and thick beige carpet. Mario of Florence, who sells women's shoes at from $82 to $420 a pair, operates out of a grand salon that could have been lifted from a jet-age Florentine palazzo. Roberta di Camerino's place, which specializes in sportswear...