Word: selection
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Every age must develop its own version of the unobtainable and chimerical quick fix: the right abracadabra to select the winning lottery number, the proper prayer to initiate the blessed millennium, the correct formula to construct the philosopher's stone. In a technological age, we seek the transforming gene to elicit immediate salvation from within...
Presently, general elections for the council are held only at the beginning of the fall semester. And it is council members who select their president, vice president, secretary and treasurer...
TIME's coverage of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century will culminate in December, when we name the Person of the Century. To help the magazine's editors make the choice, we've asked a select group of people to indicate whom they would pick. The latest nominations...
...alumnus who last week wrote an extraordinary opinion piece for the New York Times, defending the race-conscious admission policies that are at the core of the Michigan cases. Ford warned that if the courts forbid Michigan to use race, along with other factors that the school employs to select its student body--including economic standing, geographic origin, athletic and artistic achievement--they would turn back the clock to an era when minorities "were isolated and penalized for the color of their skin...or national ancestry." He recounted a revolting incident in 1934 when his black teammate, Willis Ward, voluntarily...
According to a TIME/CNN poll [NATION, July 26], 85% of Americans would like the government to mandate the right of patients to select their doctor. Will Congress give parents the right to choose their child's teacher? ALAN BONSTEEL, M.D. San Francisco