Word: select
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...when working journalists round the world are seeking louder voices in the editing and publishing processes, the 15 staffers of the Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-Eye (circ. 22,000) have received an unusual concession without a fight. Editor-Publisher John McCormally is not only soliciting their nominations before selecting a new managing editor but is offering them veto power over his final choice. "They'll be helping to select a boss," he says, "while I'll only be hiring a subordinate...
What does it cost to drop out of school? Billions, everyone agrees, but it remained for Henry M. Levin of the Stanford University School of Education to attempt some computation of how many billions. In a study made for the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, Levin focused on the 3,180,000 American males now between 25 and 34 who failed to win a high school diploma as of 1969. He then figured that dropping out would cost them a total of $237 billion (about $74,000 each) because of lower incomes during a working lifetime...
Owens then asked for and was granted a suspension of the rules so that he could introduce a "compromise" resolution. Owens proposed that the Council select James Johnson as City Manager and strongly urge Johnson to hire Peterson as his Deputy City Manager...
...monitor the changeable voter mood this election year, TIME has commissioned Daniel Yankelovich Inc. to select and periodically interview members of a TIME Citizens Panel. The panel consists of 200 citizens chosen at random out of a carefully selected larger sample of 2,000 people who are a cross section of the national voting-age population. Here is the first of seven reports on the American mood this election year...
...speech to a select gathering of Texans at the south Texas ranch of Treasury Secretary John Connally, President Nixon said yesterday that "the South Vietnamese will be able to hold...provided the United States continues to furnish the air and naval support that we have been furnishing to stop this invasion...