Word: picked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that means if we get a high lottery number, say in the upper third, we pick three `Prime' houses, or maybe three really bad houses if we have to pick our three non-choices. If we get a low lottery number, we should pick good houses if it's non-non-choice and three bad ones for regular part-partial-fractional-randomization. I guess the only way to be definite is to get a middle number and pick a low-advantage/non-offensive house...
...season goes along, our team's going tohave to pick up the intensity," Cole said. "But,that's something that develops over a season...
Here caution is indicated. Western Europe lay in ruins in 1945, but attitudes and skills had survived. The invisible destruction in Eastern Europe is worse than the visible devastation wrought by war. Managerial talents have been blighted by a half-century under an economic system that practiced pick- a-number pricing, taught enterprises to hoard inventory and rewarded them for producing a million left shoes. As Mikhail Gorbachev is discovering, it is much easier to learn to use political freedoms than to revive a moribund command economy. Casting secret ballots, speaking up in public, banding together to advance common interests...
...Many staff members, at the Commerce and Defense departments believe that robust electronics industries are vital to the national security and should be fostered by the Government. But conservatives led by Budget Director Richard Darman argue with equal vehemence that it is counterproductive for the Government to try to "pick winners and losers" in high tech...
...into the flow of the game," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "Sometimes, when you pressure, you make mediocre teams better because you give them easy buckets. We knew UNH would have a tough time scoring on us and we didn't want to help them out. We wanted to pick our spots on pressure and concentrate on playing well in the halfcourt...