Word: pick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First of all, the Cowboys have the first pick in the NFL draft, where they will surely pick UCLA's Troy Aikman. Aikman is the piece that is missing from the puzzle...
...deserved, but to call Dallas "the worst thing since the Black Plague" is going a little too far. Everyone likes to pick on you when you're down, and the Cowboys are at rock bottom. But the bad times are over...
Chemical apparently decided to cut its losses after investing tens of millions of dollars. At the moment, other institutions plan to give the technology more time, but if customer interest does not pick up, there are likely to be more dropouts from the home-banking business. "For a technology to affect the way we live, it has to be cheap, simple to use and offer a strong reason to use it," says Timothy Bajarin, an analyst at Creative Strategies Research International in Santa Clara, Calif. "So far, for computer banking, those signposts aren't there...
...jolly band that combines the sly funk of salsa and the brio of flamenco with some of the blowout intensity of rock. The band does have mainstream appeal. The "adult contemporary" step-uncle of MTV, VH-1, recently chose the Kings' video of their Bamboleo single for its "Pick of the Week," and the band is hardly shy around sentiment. Its version of the French original that was the basis for the shudder-inducing My Way has enough panache, never mind schmaltz, to rate a permanent slot on the juke at any local Irish bar. Right next to the Bulgarian...
...Somehow the memory of Nazi troops pouring into Poland might mar my enjoyment of next Sept. 1. Others might be attracted by the international status that instantly accompanies ownership of the Economist Desk Diary. But then, others in their youth went to England as Rhodes scholars; I had to pick up my Anglophilia during a three-day theater tour of London...