Word: pick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent tragedy must trigger even broader reforms in campus-wide security, such as securing other buildings on campus and improving the consistently problematic escort service. Harvard should take this opportunity to institute an all-night service with enough cars to pick up anyone who asks for a ride...
Fantini would not describe members' positions in full, but in the course of an interview, he said five members wanted to hurry the process and pick a superintendent by the next meeting on December 20, while he and member Timothy Toomey preferred putting off the decision until January...
...passed last week for migrant farm workers to seek U.S. residency status under a special amnesty program, the Immigration and Naturalization Service estimated that it had received an astonishing 1.2 million applications, four times the number expected. Normally, about 600,000 aliens come to the U.S. each year to pick crops and work on farms. To qualify for amnesty, the aliens must show they did such work for 90 days between May 1, 1985, and May 1, 1986. So it seems that at least half the applications were phony...
...people, have died from overdoses -- another tragic record -- with the highest death tolls in industrial centers like Milan and Turin. Says Milan Mayor Paolo Pillitteri: "The problem has exploded this year. The quantity of heroin and cocaine on the streets is enormous." Every day, he says, special sanitation crews pick up some 4,000 syringes discarded by drug addicts. "It's as big a problem as terrorism once...
Slowly, attitudes began to change, aided by new tenant rules that Gray admits are neither gentle nor subtle. Example: residents must take turns serving as hall and building captains. "People don't throw trash on the ground when they know it soon will be their turn to pick it up," she says. Tenants can use the day-care center, but only if they are working or looking for work. Residents are expected to take care of their property, which means fixing broken toilets and sinks themselves. One member of each family must take six weeks of training in such subjects...