Word: picked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard had four key opportunities to pick up the necessary points to defeat the Lions. But the Crimson was short on all four races--the 100, 200 and 500 freestyles, and the 200 breaststroke. All the events were decided by less than one second...
...York and, over the next few years, changed its business to such an extent that its lending and other investment services generated $240 million in 1988 -- nearly a tenth of Sotheby's gross income of $2.3 billion. What Taubman saw (and staider Christie's was not slow to pick up) was that an auction house could go directly to the public, not only at low price levels but also at very high ones. In the past, auction houses sold mainly to dealers, who put on their markup and then sold to their clients. People were shy of going to auctions...
...message is that Japan Inc. is buying up America, a point underscored by the ubiquity of headlines portraying Japan -- as distinguished from Japanese individuals or companies -- snapping up American treasures. Similar coverage greeted OPEC in the 1970s, when Arab oil sheiks seemed ready to slap down their petrodollars and pick up America piece by piece. Yet even the most alarmist press scenarios of that era did not envision oil merchants daring to seize the home of the nation's Christmas tree...
...cars were double-parked on Cambridge St. yesterday afternoon as the veteran customers of Mayflower Poultry Co. rushed inside to pick up their holiday birds...
...Kirkland House senior was named Ivy League Player of the Year in field hockey by the league's coaches. Joslin was also a unanimous first-team all-Ivy pick at midfield...