Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Russian Research Center fellow Philip Clendenning saw as "preposterous," the notion that America, with its widespread "pick-up truck mentality" and "Moral Majority types," could possibly succumb to the bloodless victory depicted...
...panel next year will pick five potential sites it thinks suitable for the project. Later in 1988, the Department of Energy will make the final decision on where the SSC will be built...
However, last year the council debated a plan by which students could pick up a coupon at the checker's desk if they were going to miss a meal and then redeem it at one of the house grills or the independently-run Greenhouse Cafe in the Science Center, Eisert says. "But the grills couldn't afford it--they barely break even as it is--and the Greenhouse would only offer $1 of credit," he adds...
...Things pick up with Dinosaur, a short educational film in which a grade-schooler's show-and tell starts leaping off the blackboard and showing its fangs. A few of his order independent shorts are also worthwhile, but it takes the big-bucks of advertising to give the Men and Women of Clay a chance to fly. The program whizzes through the ads to the best thing ever shown on MTV, John Fogerty's "Vanz Kant Danz" video, featuring a snivelling pig in a transformation sequence that is equalled only by the final and best short, "The Great Cognito...
...Quincy House resident says she fills her ads with specific allusions to songs and performers she likes in order to garner compatible respondents. She has included lines from Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson because she says people who pick up on these cues must have something in common with...