Word: pick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government has given enough attention or resources to the drive for good health. Dr. Vorobyev, who has written a best-selling book called Components of Health, advocates a "national campaign for fitness" and is working on a plan to set up kiosks , on city streets where people can pick up diet advice, be weighed or have their blood pressure checked. Says he: "I want to put a scale in every factory, in every movie theater and at every bus stop...
...instance, the Princeton Review SAT prep course shows students how to circumvent the reading comprehension portion of the test. The SAT always includes one passage on non-Western culture. According to the Princeton Review, students should always pick the most positive sounding answer choice in this section because ETS will generally avoid associating minorites and other nationalities with any negative judgments. Don't understand it, just pick the positive-sounding answer. So much for reading comprehension...
Maybe with a little more support, it will pick up at Harvard. And maybe the team will get a few more tables which can honestly sing, "Lean...
...vendor has an order for a couple thousand pounds of roast beef," says Carpenter, the meat and poultry buyer for Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS). "I'II pick out the ones I want...
Mixing jokes with the stand-by "pick-a-card-any-card" trick and the old "remove the bra from the unsuspecting freshman," Karol spent two hours giving five-minute performances between tables. The Allentown, Penn., native promised but never delivered the "stick-your-finger-in-the-broom-handle-breaker" routine...