Word: selective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appointments were approved by a special select committee of the bar association," Sargent replied. He said that his screening committee had been instructed to give preference to blacks and women. That these judges were not picked up my screening committee does not mean they are incompetent, he added...
Under the plan, proposed by former Law School dean and U.S. Solicitor-General Erwin N. Griswold last week at the Cornell Law School, the Supreme Court would continue to rule on about 150 cases of its yearly docket of 4000, but then would select another 150 cases to be reviewed by the new court...
...Japan for a home-run hitting contest against Sadaharu Oh, 34, star first baseman for Tokyo's Yomiuri Giants. Oh has 634 lifetime home runs against Aaron's 733 and expects to pass Aaron's total one day. At their Saturday contest, each batter will select a pitcher and then use half an hour trying to rap baseballs out of Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium. For his appearance, Aaron will make $50,000, win or lose. As for Oh, he warms up for each game by gulping down a secret mixture of Korean ginseng and honey...
Hugh Wolff made his debut as the new conductor, and ingeniously elicited the most sensitive performance I have heard from the Bach Society Orchestra. He was lucky to be conducting a select group of talented musicians--who were attracted to the Society in the first place by his reputation and his fresh, enterprising programming. This year's concerts will include works of Bach, Beethoven, Ravel, Mahler and Stravinsky...
...perhaps particularly so because I was a student at Yale in its first years of coeducation. I watched the Yale administration, after a stormy first year of marriage, refashion its female student body in the perfect image of a wife. It is inevitable that whoever sits in judgment will select students according to those qualities he or she most esteems. But at present, I think that female applicants will fare better if the eyes of the beholder belong to someone likewise born female...