Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grown tight and elusive, and so our measure of its worth is dramatically changed. In Florida a man bills his ophthalmologist $90 for keeping him waiting an hour. In California a woman hires somebody to do her shopping for her -- out of a catalog. Twenty bucks pays someone to pick up the dry cleaning, $250 to cater dinner for four, $1,500 will buy a fax machine for the car. "Time," concludes pollster Louis Harris, who has charted America's loss of it, "may have become the most precious commodity in the land...
...Richard Rogers, founded At Your Service last year in Winter Park, Fla. They are typical of the growing number of entrepreneurs who will perform any service within their expertise, for anywhere between $25 and $50 an hour. They chauffeur people to airports, return video tapes, cater parties. "I can pick up the phone and ask them to do anything," says Debbie Findura, 35, a part- time real estate agent who has called them to fix a light bulb that broke off in the socket, remove a live lizard she found in her oven, and deliver a package...
Frilot, a three-year starter on the offensive line and an all-Ivy pick the last two seasons, has also been in contact with NFL clubs. Like Hinz, he has signed with an agent...
...wonder which NFL team will pick Heisman-winner Barry Sanders...
...Advertising Managers of The Crimson, we must say that it would be an extremely bad business practice to pick and choose our advertisers to ensure that they are "politically correct." If this were The Crimson's policy, most advertisers would not want to risk becoming entangled in the internal politics of The Crimson by submitting an ad; they would simply take their business elsewhere...