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Word: selectiveness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...through what by their standards are cumbersome immigration and customs formalities -- they find that the red carpet is unrolled. Especially eager to please are American merchants. At New York City's Bloomingdale's department store, where foreigners account for 20% of annual sales, managers stage private breakfasts for select groups of tourists, who can feast on eggs Benedict while watching a fashion show or cosmetics demonstration. Escorts are also available to lead shoppers through the store, helping them with size conversions and translations. Some of the restaurant staff at Manhattan's Sheraton Centre hotel, aided by a tutor, have learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Yen for a Bargain | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...inconclusive that Golden State voters, whose primaries always come late in the season, would have unusual influence in choosing both nominees. Like many an '88 scenario, that forecast foundered on the reefs of reality. Californians, along with voters in New Jersey, New Mexico and Montana, will anoint rather than select the nominees next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grail of the Golden State | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...Democratic Party has backed the Civil Rights movement, but its minority record is not unblemished. The system the party uses to select its presidential nominee cheated the Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1984 out of hundreds of delegates. The rules ensure that party bosses--not primary voters--decide who the nominee will be. Jackson received 21 percent of the vote four years ago, but just 11 percent of the delegates...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: Slashing Civil Rights | 5/27/1988 | See Source »

Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh concedes that disclosure of some documents, presumably those that reveal U.S. intelligence sources in the Middle East and Central America, could lead to "torture and death." At a minimum, the trial may be delayed for months while the Government dribbles out documents, the defense lawyers select those they deem essential to their case, and Judge Gesell decides, one by one, whether the chosen papers are relevant. What if he rules that some are necessary but the Government still refuses to declassify them? Then, warns Gesell, there might be no trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington: Oliver North's Paper Chase | 5/9/1988 | See Source »

Prop Mary Christ, second-row Andrea Eror, wing Page Levine and Caldwell were all selected to the first annual All-New England select side...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: W. Ruggers Capture N.E. Championships | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

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