Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambridge city government entered another week of stalemate last night as the city council failed again to pick a mayor from its number...
...astounded that you should stoop to pick the bones of J. Edgar Hoover...
...good sense; students who want to learn about the arts are discouraged by the current curriculum system. As the task force report points out, an increased emphasis on the arts may help counter several disturbing trends, including the increase in undergraduate pre-professionalism and the failure of students to pick up new artistic skills in their time at the College. Departments should recognize these needs and expand their curricular offerings...
...groomed for Alfrink's job. The favored candidate of the Dutch hierarchy was Alfrink's top assistant in Utrecht, Anton Vermeulen. But the Curia found Vermeulen too independent-minded, and Paul may also have been reluctant to appear to recognize any right of the Dutch bishops to pick Alfrink's successor...
...Fluor, 54, a grandson of the firm's founder, was taking a calculated risk that business would somehow pick up again. But that came naturally to a man with a stable of 25 race horses and a reputation for patience, even under pressure. His prescience paid off when oil prices started to skyrocket at the end of 1973. Suddenly, energy projects that had previously seemed uneconomic looked profitable, and Fluor had skilled engineers ready to do the work. The jobs were immense: a $1.4 billion contract to build twelve pumping stations and the Valdez terminal for the trans-Alaska...