Word: selectiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minimall? If such money is going to be raised, wouldn't it be better spent on more financial aid or the creation of a University-sponsored study-abroad program, than on xerox machines or drug stores? How about making sure that all houses, and not just a select few, are wheelchair-accessible...
...November 1984, Blazakis said, Galanos asked the First Lady to select one of two fur jackets to go with the second Inaugural gown he was designing for her. One was a $10,500 white mink, the other a $35,000 Russian sable. According to Blazakis, Nancy had wanted to keep both. Galanos persuaded her that the American mink would be more appropriate and did not give her the sable. Mrs. Reagan, however, did not wear the mink to the Inaugural. Crispen last week said that Mrs. Reagan recalls borrowing the jacket and wearing it once, then returning it sometime later...
...Reagan announced on Jan. 14, 1982, that she would consider the dresses accepted in 1981 as loans. Beyond that, she would select the best and give them to 13 museums to promote the fashion industry. According to the selected museums, the last such donation was in 1982. In February of that year she said she had told all her favorite designers that she would no longer accept any dresses on loan. The First Lady does not appear to have kept that promise...
...University did not collect $1650 in late fees used to process petitions in the first week after study cards were due, she said. The waiver was intended to compensate for halving the traditional two-week shopping period given students to select courses at the beginning of each term...
...evident that if baseball could select the President of the United States, that person would be Orel Hershiser...