Word: pick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's plan, which is at best a modest proposal, calls for the University to donate a van one day a week to pick up students' used newspapers at houses and freshmen dorms. The program broadens the reach of a year-old Phillips Brooks House-sponsored project where students spend two hours each Saturday filling PBH vans with newspapers...
...there is too much symbolism and melodrama, too many archetypes, too many plot twists. But the acting and photography overcome this flaw, making Salaam Bombay into one of the best films to be released this year. Once again, the judges at Cannes have shown that they know how to pick them...
...have learned that Harvard can do almost anything. It can persuade Nobel Laureates, who did not even bother to go to Sweden to pick up their awards, to speak here. It can refuse the President of the United States an honorary degree, and it can turn away more than 85 percent of the people who apply here...
When it came time to pick a running mate, Bush chose a young, vacuous senator, whose only qualification seems to be his unerring toeing of the reactionary line. Born to enormous wealth and helped by nepotism every step of the way, Senator Dan Quayle personifies what has come to be known as the Me Generation...
...managers, borrows billions to take the firm private by buying its stock from the shareholders. The company's own assets are used as security for the financing. After the deal is completed, the new owners usually try to bring their debt down to a manageable level -- and pick up enormous profits along the way -- by selling off parts of the company piecemeal. In the case of RJR Nabisco, the total market value of popular individual brands like Oreo cookies and Winston cigarettes may be far higher than the $20 billion price tag for the company as a whole...