"The lower rates go, the less selective accounts can afford to be in their search for yield."

But other officials said that Mr. Worner was giving a somewhat selective account of the internal NATO assessment.

That spokesman, Fred Eckhard, called the book a "sensational and selective account of peacekeeping" that focused on a "few bad apples."

Greely's enterprise, on the other hand, is well documented, but after the original, selective accounts, it has largely been ignored in print.

Mr. Dole's kinship with the former President suggests at once loyalty, admiration and a highly selective - and forgiving - account of their association.

It'll be a selective account, of course.

Instead it gives a vivid and highly selective account of what a luxurious private life was like in St. Petersburg at one time or another from 1703 to 1917.

As a result, the highly antagonistic and selective accounts contained within the Bible were almost the only sources of information on ancient Canaanite religion.

However, it is crucial that those interested in drawing such lessons base them on all the available evidence and not on selective or self-serving accounts.

"If he can go that far, why couldn't he give a selective account of six or seven reasons why he's innocent?"