Word: pick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week police began circulating a composite photographic likeness of a "scruffy looking," mustached suspect who tried to pick up a woman in Halifax just three hours before Josephine Whitaker was murdered. Rebuffed, he drove off in an old Ford. Police suspect that the killer may live with someone who is deliberately shielding him from the investigators. Says Oldfield: "Until this man is caught he will continue to kill and kill again...
Customers in two dozen countries will soon be spending less than they ordinarily would for a wide variety of imports, ranging from cheese to autos, and that will help slow inflation. U.S. export sales should pick up for industries as diverse as hospital equipment, chemicals and data processing, creating more jobs. American farmers should get easier access for their goods abroad, helping to narrow the huge U.S. trade deficit...
Fouquet said the women selected will reflect the views "of the people who pick" them...
...leaders, and together they reached productive compromises to speed the digging and burning of coal. Similarly, Diebold's clients ponder the example of Pennsylvania Power & Light and Canada's Ontario Hydro. Before building a power plant, they solicit citizen volunteers to examine a number of sites and pick the one that seems the most desirable-and environmentally safest. Perhaps other corporations would be wise to join with real or potential critics instead of fighting them so hard...
...elections will pick the first black-majority Parliament in Rhodesian history. Whites, however, will retain significant constitutional and military control in the government, observers...