Word: picked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pick a family like your own, say, a couple with the same number of children as yours or a pair of empty nesters, you can pretty much customize your accommodations, arranging everything from a baby's crib to a play group and baby-sitter, from access to a car to the use of a weekend retreat. Your swap family may also be willing to feed your cat and walk your dog. It's helpful to have a friend or neighbor meet your guests and show them the basics: how to use the vcr, where the vacuum cleaner...
Saddam Hussein doesn't get to pick his enemies, but if he did, the choice would be easy. Gunning for him on one front is a 25-year-old rookie pilot from California who wants to be known only by his call sign, "Loose." An F-15E Strike Eagle pilot, Loose recently lit his afterburners to escape a salvo of three Iraqi missiles. "I had a big fat grin," Loose says, remembering the day when the missiles came close, but missed, and his commander radioed back that he could retaliate with a pair of 500-lb. bombs. Once again...
...next thing you do is find out why the company failed to meet expectations. If you read anything about accounting irregularities being behind the disappointment, then you pick up the phone, or go to your computer, and turn that unrealized loss into a realized loss, pronto. My rule is simple: companies nailed or fessing up for bogus numbers can't be owned. Many never come back. Waste Management, HBO McKesson, Sunbeam--these were all worth booting the moment the accounting problems surfaced. Don't try to rationalize or waffle. Just...
...know what I'll be thinking about?" one of them asked, staring at a hot but annoyingly giggly blond. "Pie. A nice piece of pie. Even right now if you offered me her or an entire Cookie Puss, I'm not sure which I'd pick." My other friend and I nodded in agreement, until he told us that a Cookie Puss was some sort of ice-cream cake. Then we made...
...that's just for starters. In 2025's genetically based pharmacology, you'll not only have your pick of the old standbys--tranquilizers, antihistamines, painkillers and antibiotics, all compounded to your personal specs--but you'll see all sorts of new capsules and tablets for virtually every ailment and condition. These will range from mood and pleasure enhancers--legal and otherwise--for the pill poppers of the future to new medications for diseases likely to be much more common in an aging population, like Alzheimer's, cardiovascular problems and cancer...