Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...psychic can pick up a person's vibes and tell where they're coming from, as well as where they have been--their past lives. The psychic can then predict certain things in the future based on patterns in that person's life," says reader Steve Brown...
...councilors discussed solutions to this problem, including moving taxi stands closer to residential districts, so that a driver would not have to travel far to pick up a passenger at home; changing the fare structure to make short trips more lucrative; or requiring taxi drivers to pick up passengers referred to them by the radio dispatchers...
...defense did an excellent job of clearing the ball," Scalise said. "They got the ball up the field and Post failed to pick them up. We were able to capitalize on their not getting the second slide...
...names of the casualties filtered through the division's headquarters on Manhattan's West 57th Street, a mixture of anger and shock gripped employees. Rather refused to help pick those who should be laid off, and an anonymous letter circulated through the building urging a walkout to protest the cutbacks -- and to show support for the news writers, who struck CBS and ABC last week. (NBC's employees belong to another union.) Negotiations for a new contract collapsed when the networks insisted on greater flexibility in firing workers and hiring more temporary employees; during the walkout, news scripts are being...
Denver Housewife Jeannie Lancaster suspected that something was wrong with her son a few months after his birth. "He was always fussy and would never cuddle," she remembers. "When I would go to pick him up, he would arch away." By the time he was one, he had acquired the alarming habit of banging his head against the wall, and when he began to talk, he repeated the same sound or word over and over again. Says Lancaster, "I kept asking myself, 'What am I doing wrong?' " Professional counselors offered conflicting views. A pediatrician thought the boy might be autistic...