Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officer asks the man to perform field sobriety tests. The officer drops a pen and asks the man to pick it up. He also asks the man to say the alphabet backwards. The officer decides to call the police wagon and, when it arrives, the driver involved with the accident is handcuffed, put in the back and transported to the Cambridge police station in Central Square...
...authors maintain that there is nothing wrong with a little irrationality now and then, so long as it is kept within certain bounds. Even an occasional show of anger can be a sign of respect, but be sure to pick on someone your own size, or larger. No kicking the pet salamander...
...take over, saying a "younger man" ought to get the job. Party insiders contend that Ito fears he will not be given sufficient independence. Already, a back-room struggle is under way as Takeshita and his supporters maneuver to ensure that they will continue to pull the strings. To pick someone other than a senior politician like Ito would be nothing short of revolutionary...
...show of force, however, the recovery drive has made little tangible progress. Exxon estimated that it had cleaned a scant 3,300 ft. of beach, leaving 304 miles of oil-covered shoreline to go in Prince William Sound alone. The company claimed that it would pick up the remaining seaborne oil within the next two weeks and scrub all the fouled shoreline before cold weather arrives in September. But Alaskan officials grimaced with skepticism. "Sounds too rosy," said Dennis Kelso, Alaska's environmental conservation commissioner. "Look at Exxon's track record till now -- too little, too late, and too many...
...affront to civil liberties and freedom of association. If applied across the board, it would require programs such as the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program to shut down because they are not part of the academic structure. But the staff would not apply this standard across the board. It would pick and choose the activities that are socially beneficial. I happen to agree with the staff that our country needs more teachers at this point than military officers, but I would not presume to sit in judgment of student groups' relative beneficence. It is ironic and hypocritical that after praising...