Word: picking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nick] definitely helped pick up on the field when Mark wasn't there," Getman said. "He's a very intelligent player, and has improved a lot since the beginning of the season...
...analyst at Montgomery Securities, feels otherwise. "Other than parking," he says, "the only benefit is on gravel roads at speeds over 70 m.p.h." In Japan, where the technology was first marketed more than two years ago, car buyers seem favorably impressed. Nissan reports that 40% of the Japanese who pick the flashy Skyline model ask for four-wheel steering. Some 75% of those buying new Honda Prelude in Japan have purchased the high-tech option...
...officials, more American criminals are likely to switch to such havens as Luxembourg, Austria, Panama and Hong Kong. Says Richard Stricof, a tax expert with Manhattan's Seidman & Seidman accounting firm: "If I were doing something that I didn't want federal authorities to know about, I would pick a place that was inconspicuous. Switzerland...
...golden boy. "Dream of flying," his mother urged, and the boy did. Gifted and coddled, he could pick up any one of his toy planes and send it soaring, ever higher, never landing, as buoyant and restless as his imagination. Then reality brought his world crashing to earth. The boy, poor indomitable thing, had a lot to learn about gravity...
...taken outside. Julie has encountered some rivals on its way to the toy stores. Mattel offers the precocious Baby Heather ($120), whose age can quickly change from six months to two years if its "grow up" button is pressed. Heather's blond head has several sensors that pick up sound, so it can turn and face the direction from which someone is speaking. Playmates, of La Mirada, Calif., has come out with Jill, ($150) a trendy twelve-year-old companion and raconteur. Telling a story about a haunted house, Jill might ask, "Should we go in the front door...