Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many offices, drugs are as easy to obtain as paper clips from the stock room. Some dealers provide messenger services to deliver cocaine and marijuana right to their customers' desks. In other cases, users send unwitting company messengers on "business" errands to pick up packages that actually contain narcotics...
...says that this fund could not be invested any differently than Harvard's other endowment funds. "You can't pick and choose between claimants" who say they are deserving of a little more than other investors, he adds. "You can make that argument about anything with equal force...
...regularly. The French monthly food review Sel et Poivre (Salt and Pepper) calls Petrus "the most sought-after wine in the world." At New York City's Sherry-Lehmann Wines, President Michael Aaron says that Petrus is Actor Burgess Meredith's favorite wine, as well as a frequent pick of Herbert A. Allen, a Manhattan investment banker who used to own Columbia Pictures. Vogue Magazine Critic Martin Gersh describes a Petrus taste-testing session as "unquestionably one of the supreme wine experiences of my life." Wine experts praise Petrus' full-bodied, fruity flavor, but no one can adequately explain...
...green thumb. He personally oversees the cultivation of the vines and claims to have given each one individual attention. Says he: "I call them people. I have seen each of them." Every fall, when the grapes reach just the right degree of ripeness, 180 workers pick them swiftly over a two-day period...
...growing competition, not only from one another but from aggressive local stations and independent news services. Showcasing the anchor in remote locations is one way for a network to demonstrate its uniqueness. Still, major trips will probably remain special occasions, at least for the near future. "We have to pick our opportunities carefully," says Bill Wheatley, executive producer of the NBC Nightly News. "We can't be a constant road show...