Word: picked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sides also signed eleven other agreements, all involving trade. Commerce between the two countries, which fell 36% from its peak in 1984 to a total of $8 billion last year, has lately begun to pick up again. Gorbachev was especially taken with demonstrations of the high-tech wizardry that abounds in West German industry. In one factory a robot poured glasses of a local wine for a toast with Baden-Wurttemberg Minister President Lother Spath. Gorbachev repeatedly encouraged West German industrialists to participate in joint ventures in the Soviet Union. Said he: "Those who look ahead and take calculated risks...
...done this in other federal programs, so this should not be any different," Kildee says. "We don't just put money out on a stump for people to pick...
...Berkeley, they play pick-up volleyball games like they play pick-up basketball here," Forman says...
...Harvard requires police and fire protection. Harvard creates garbage that the city has to pick up. And above all, Harvard attracts large numbers of students and professors to live in Cambridge, diminishing the city's supply of affordable housing...
...term-time job was portent for post-graduate life; when Harvard is reduced to a memory, we have to pick and choose what remains of its meaning. Most Harvard students, when asked where we go to school, reply Boston first, then Cambridge if coaxed, and only under extreme pressure do we say Harvard. Upon graduation, are we going to buy into the legend, sporting the sweatshirt and ring, joining the Harvard club? Or are we going to lead our lives away from school connections and attitudes, continue to say we went to school simply "in Boston...