Word: picked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bank in New York City. "Why should I live in Harlem?" asks Parsons, who resides in a wealthy Westchester County, N.Y., suburb. "If given a choice between unsafe streets and poor schools on the one hand, and peace and quiet and quality schools on the other, who wouldn't pick the best neighborhood and the best schools? The black underclass is not just our problem. It's all of society's problem...
Unlike weekday readers in the city, who may buy two papers or more, Sunday readers tend to stick with one. This is a serious obstacle for the Post, which shares many of its daily readers with the Times. Nonetheless, Kalikow is confident that many Times readers will also pick up the Sunday Post and that he can wrest others away from the Daily News. Projecting a 35% to 40% increase in revenue, Kalikow predicts that the Sunday edition will help the Post show a profit...
...normally raucous House chamber fellsilent, Flaherty told fellow lawmakers that thestate must now pick up the slack for a negligentfederal government and local communitiesconstrained by Proposition 2 1/2, the 1980property tax cap referendum...
...stopped taking seriously William F. Buckley's conservative rag National Review when it called South Africa a "genuinely threatened democracy," but I still like to pick it up for a few laughs. A recent issue contains an article called "Murder in Broad Daylight," about the demise of Ivy League football. And whom do you think Hart blames for this tragedy? Liberals, of course...
...window "was too dirty to see through." Prosecutor Doug Mulder argued that the defense could not cross-examine a witness because she was traveling. In fact, she was staying at a Dallas hotel, possibly with the prosecutor's knowledge. She revealed to Morris that she had failed to pick Adams out of a lineup...