Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even members of the Southern Africa SolidarityCommittee, who have had frequent run-ins with thedean over their attempts to convince theUniversity to divest from its South Africa-relatedholdings, say they have few bones to pick withJewett...
Arne Duncan is not sure what the future will bring for him. He is interested in the possibility of pursuing basketball for a few years--most likely in Europe, although nothing is definite. A late-round pick in the NBA draft is not out of the question, either...
...selling straw hats in winter. This month, though, the city's bus service began testing a ploy to lure new customers. Riders drop off their dirty laundry in the morning at a bus stop heavily used by suburban commuters. There, vans operated by Kwik Wash, a local laundry service, pick up the bundles. In the afternoon at the same stop, riders get the clothes back, clean and neatly folded. Cost: 85 cents per lb. If the program is a success, film processing and shoe repair may be next...
...race to become an alternative to Hart develops into even more of a free-for-all. Both former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt feel that the absence of a top-tier battle between Cuomo and Hart will open the way for dark-horse candidates to pick up support and financial backing. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis will no longer be thought of as the poor man's Mario Cuomo. If he enters the race, he will be the only candidate of the urban Northeast, and can carry the flag of pragmatic liberalism. Dukakis says he will make...
...North's shadowy private partners, Iranian-born Businessman Albert Hakim and retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord, hired a 163-ft. Danish ship, the Veralil, to ferry weapons to the contras. The ship was loaded with Soviet AK-47 guns in Poland, then sent to Portugal to pick up ammunition. Documents said the ship was headed for Guatemala, but she docked in Honduras, where the contras collected the weapons...