Word: picking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...much interest there is in the class changes with the times," Lee said. "What the council has simply tried to do was revive the administration" so that a well-run program would exist should interest pick up again, he added...
...epidemic of the disease. Food donated to the students by factories and other work units was piled in the open. Nearby, garbage rotted in the morning sun, and by midafternoon, the temperature often topped 90 degrees F. City sanitation workers threaded their way through the clusters of protesters to pick up the bulk of the garbage, but a good bit got left behind...
...skirted, skimmed, finally finessed. He'd sooner study the lunch menu. "Do you eat cod?" he asks, looking up from the day's offerings. "Well, I don't. I eat haddock instead. Cod is full of worms. I once worked as a fish gutter, and I was supposed to pick the worms out. That was my job. But since you had to fill a certain quota of boxes in order to get paid, you often didn't bother to get all the worms...
...rally surprised experts, most of whom had expected the dollar to drift lower this year. Their best explanation: a combination of high U.S. interest rates, which make the dollar attractive to foreign investors, and the political woes of West Germany and Japan. The Japanese have yet to pick a successor to Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, who announced his resignation in April over a stock scandal; in West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's Christian Democrat Union has lost two important local elections this year. Moreover, even though the yield on such securities as ten-year U.S. Treasury bonds has slipped from...
...simplest systems do just what the old answering machines do: pick up the phone, play a prerecorded greeting and record whatever the caller has to say. Some add technological bells and whistles, like push-button controls that let their owners save messages or dispatch replies -- to one person or to hundreds of people. Other systems are set up to dispense information, offering callers a menu of choices and playing the messages they select. The most powerful machines combine voice-message units with huge computer files, which enable callers to use their telephones to navigate through long lists of stock quotes...