Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That view is probably alarmist. Though some economists have begun to talk about the possibility of a recession, most experts expect growth to pick up in the second half of the year. They think that the 65% drop in oil prices since late last year, which has devastated the huge U.S. petroleum industry, will soon begin to stimulate investment by other businesses and increased spending by consumers. The fall in the value of the dollar, a 26% decline against major world currencies since early 1985, is expected to help reduce the trade deficit by making imports more expensive and American...
CONSULATES. Proposals to end visa services at U.S. consulates in three South African cities are aimed at the same white travelers, who would have to leave their country to pick up visas before catching flights to the U.S. It would be a nuisance that would have little effect on blacks...
...between gourmet lunches, concerts and high-brow convocations September 4-7, alumni will pick and choose from a virtual course catalogue of educational seminars designed to reflect current scholarship in most academic fields...
Women like Emily and Irma live by shibboleths learned in early youth: sleep with no woman and damn few men; he who rides a tiger must never get off; and, as the title indicates, he who sees the last blossom on the plum tree must pick it. Shakespeare was more succinct: ripeness is all, and so it proves with Emily. After meeting Carlo's ancient father, she is momentarily ( transformed into a radiant ideal: "beautiful, charming, intelligent, loving, and the perfect future Principessa Pontevecchio." Irma is another matter: abandoned by Charlie, she becomes one more foolish dowager...
...with thousands of workers doing repetitive jobs tend to operate some of the most stringent monitoring systems. At Pacific Southwest Airlines offices in San Diego and Reno, the master computer records exactly how long the 400 reservation clerks spend on each call and how much time passes before they pick up their next one. Workers earn negative points for such infractions as repeatedly spending in excess of an average 109 seconds handling a call, and taking any more than twelve minutes in bathroom trips beyond the hour a day they are allotted for lunch and coffee breaks. Employees can lose...