Word: pick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elis' vacation package included more than just plane tickets, hotel reservations and a promise of sun. Yale edged the defending-champion Crimson in the regatta finals to pick up the Commodore Cup as a souvenir...
Only one sleep technique has worked. Each night I program a sequence of soothing music which delivers me into a deep and peaceful slumber. As soon as the sequence ends, however, I'm up. Without input from the compact disc player, the speakers pick up a local rap radio station...
...combination locks could eventually become obsolete. Increasingly, access to buildings, rooms and vaults will be controlled by computerized machines that can recognize personal characteristics of people seeking entrance: fingerprints, blood-vessel arrangements in the eye's retina, voice patterns, even typing rhythms. These biometric machines have special sensors that pick up the characteristics, convert them into digital code and compare them with data stored in the computer's memory bank. Unless the information matches up with the characteristics of authorized persons, entrance is denied...
...against delivering deceptive sales pitches by phone. California set up stringent new licensing requirements for telemarketers. New York is considering a law that would give consumers three days to cancel a telemarketing purchase. But, say law-enforcement officials, the crooks keep inventing new schemes to ensnare unsuspecting people who pick up the phone. For now, the best defense is to keep in mind an old saying that covers any kind of deal: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably...
...prevent profiteering. But here Willey hews to the free-market line: even if the price per acre-foot starts out high, he says, competition will drive it down to a fair level as other irrigation districts try to get in on the action. Beyond that, someone has to pick up the bill for the replacement water. Los Angeles has agreed to pay part of the cost of the pilot project. E.D.F. has committed itself to raising the remainder, partly by lobbying the state and the U.S. Forest Service, which has declared Mono Lake a National Forest Scenic Area...