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Along with his power surge, and perhaps contributing to it, Tatís has also become more selective about the pitches he swings at.

Van Eenennaam credits this boost in productivity to conventional selective breeding.

Interestingly, “fusion’s effect on selective censoring occurred regardless of whether the incongruent comments used offensive language.”

Since then, SDPD has said it would be selective about when it tapped into the cameras.

That’s due largely to selective breeding and other technologies.

But death—the taking of life—was a selective process, intentionally executed, the result a foreseen conclusion.

I'm opposed to dictators, myself; that—and the Selective Service law, of course—was why I was a soldier.

HUNTER PATROLHENRY BEAM PIPER AND JOHN J. MCGUIRE

And this selective desire is none other than the universal Law of Attraction.

All I wish to say here is that the necessity of some selective process is inherent in the conditions of social life.

Seines are species-selective, due partly to the preference of certain fishes for special habitat niches.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985