Word: selection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kalb says that Pauley's media star status is responsible for the intrusions into her personal life--not her position as a working mother. "[The Class Committee] didn't select Jane because she's a working mother, you selected her because she's on t.v. every morning--let's just be honest about our motives," he says...
Radcliffe Class Marshal Virginia L. Stimpson '89, who helped select Pauley for the Class Day speech, says the news anchor's gender was a factor in the choice, but that she did not think Pauley would address women's issues specifically...
...tenor of Japan-bashing is often xenophobic, and can border on the racist. Two years ago, when Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, who is of Japanese descent, chaired the Senate Select Committee in the Iran-contra hearings, Congress was bombarded with hate letters, telegrams and phone calls that assailed him as "that yellow bastard." Says Japanese-born Aki Yoshikawa, research director of the University of California's Berkeley Roundtable on International Economics: "There's definitely an element of racism among many people who criticize Japan. Something about Japan is alien to them...
...listen to people read statements." Cavazos is also handicapped by his lack of familiarity with elementary- and secondary- education issues. In April, for example, he incorrectly told reporters that Minnesota provides transportation across district lines as part of its "choice" plan, which will soon allow parents to select schools for their children anywhere in the state...
...Some add technological bells and whistles, like push-button controls that let their owners save messages or dispatch replies -- to one person or to hundreds of people. Other systems are set up to dispense information, offering callers a menu of choices and playing the messages they select. The most powerful machines combine voice-message units with huge computer files, which enable callers to use their telephones to navigate through long lists of stock quotes or catalog items. Some units even allow a caller to order merchandise and charge it to a credit card, without ever speaking to a human...