Word: pick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seems to me the argument falls on its face. Just pick up any newspaper, on any subject. You have a great problem with the space program. You've got problems with AIDS. You've got problems with savings and loans. Now they're not all going to be rescued or prevented ((from failing)) just by having a more effective civil service. But to say that you can run the Government without any continuity, without any background, without any expertise, I think, logically is deficient...
...Already exhausted, I walk four more blocks through ankle-deep slush to another store for toothpaste. I select some, proceed to a separate counter to a cashier with an abacus, pay the bill, then go back to the toothpaste counter with a stamped ticket to pick up my purchase...
...little good for a presidential spokesman to protest that "we didn't try to pick a fight" or for senior U.S. officials to minimize the possibility that the U.S. would take out the weapons plant by force. Arab states lined up in the United Nations to denounce America's "brutal aggression." In the harshest language the Soviet Union has used toward the U.S. in two years, the Kremlin labeled the American action "state terrorism...
...forms and new methods superimposed on ancient beliefs give ! Hong Kong its basic texture. One can see a computer-store manager keeping accounts with an abacus. Hong Kong's skyline bespeaks the sterile utility of modern commercial architecture, yet few of the colony's real estate developers would pick up a shovel before consulting a geomancer to site the building according to the rules of feng shui, meaning "wind and water" and envisioning a felicitous balance of place and design...
Dallas just played out the rest of the schedule at the end of the season. While Landry is a fine upstanding citizen, I don't think Dallas gave its all during those last games. They were definitely playing for the first draft pick...