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In my editorial entitled "The Review Process," which appeared in the September/October 1985 issue of Optical Engineering, I discussed the important role that referees play in determining the fate of manuscripts submitted to technical journals. In the present editorial I describe the procedures we employ in selecting referees and some of the difficulties we encounter in making the decision to publish or reject a manuscript.