Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Avila Camacho, and the enigmatic Lázaro Cárdenas, holed up in his western mountains, exercise great power in the background. When the time came to choose Alemán's successor, the party leaders did not interfere with Alemán's right to pick him. But they warned him that he had better not name any of his cronies...
...profit & loss statement. But Thomson's mechanical improvements have made it easier for editors to show profits. In Canada, he has connected most of his papers with a teletype circuit. Thus, when one has a successful feature or circulation-building idea, other papers in the chain can promptly pick it up. At first his chain-store methods set conservative Canadian publishers against him. But they changed their minds when every daily that Thomson bought improved its news coverage, became a better newspaper as well as a better investment for him. Three years ago he was elected president...
Maurois does not flinch from giving a clinical history of the relationships that caused George Sand to be described as "a walking graveyard." Nor does he deny that it was her fatal psychological weakness always to pick on men who were too weak to dominate her. And yet. his complete portrait convincingly presents a figure of memorable strength. Sand, Maurois shows, was the forerunner of today's emancipated woman. All her characteristics would have been considered admirable-in a man. Her friends were legion; most of her ex-lovers confessed that though she had nearly been the death...
...crystal ball." And the formulas cannot account for the huge increase in values represented by some of the sales that have taken place. In California's San Bernardino County, the publisher of a semiweekly, which he bought for $85,000 in 1949, had five bids to pick from when he sold it three months ago for $175,000. One triweekly in the same fast-growing area went for $25,000 ten years ago, and this month the new owner turned down offers ten times as high...
...army, and was working in a road gang when an officer kicked him for not saluting. El Sapo killed the man with a dagger and was sentenced to be shot, but got a reduced sentence and was later pardoned. After that, he committed murder as casually as lesser malefactors pick pockets...