Word: select
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undistinguished landscape by Van Gogh, L'Hôpital de St. Paul á St. Rémy, joined the no longer select club of certified million-dollar marvels by fetching $1,200,000. A smallish Gauguin self-portrait, far less impressive than several others he painted, brought $420,000-an auction record for that artist. Degas's 37½-inch-high La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, wearing the original cloth tutu and silk hair ribbon Degas used, broke the existing auction record for sculpture, selling for $380,000. Ironically, the little statue was received with such hostility...
...indicated he will make no changes in the deans, however. He said he has "complete confidence" in the present deans and would not want to have to select any new deans after a short time in office...
...MCCOLOUGH: It is very difficult to operate around the world with our antitrust laws. We cannot select a foreign partner and say, "We are going to work with you forever." This leads to great difficulty for us because we have to write agreements that are short-term when we really intend them to be longterm. I don't know any other government that makes companies obey not only the laws of the foreign nations where they operate but also certain laws of the home country. We are unique in that...
...blithely and automatically reduces emotionally-charged issues such as equal sex admissions to an abstract discussion of "relative pain levels." The problem, however, and we must be very clear about this, is not single persons, for these people merely embody the characteristics which our educational system, and our society, select for. The problem is fully systematic; the Dump Nixon movement will be no more successful in putting an end to the war than was the Dump LBJ movement...
According to Daniels, the Journal has ever 1000 subscribers, and a national newsstand circulation of 4000. "For $2.50 a year, you get two issues and possibly occasional special issues on very select, esoteric topics such as, for example, the political philosophy of Martin Luther King," said Daniels...