Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When's he going to pick the spares...
...Well, he doesn't want to pick them just...
...when's he gonna pick them...
...magazine. The quarterly, which is modestly called Gloria Vanderbilt Designs for Your Home, promises to supply how-to tips in painting, crochet, needlepoint, embroidery, quilting, knitting, rug making, sewing and other skills for ambitious homemakers. All of which may help even Creative Director Vanderbilt to pick up a new stitch or two. "I haven't a clue about how to do needlepoint," she confessed last week. "And sewing is a mystery...
...typical supermarket receives 200 trucks every week; each shipment has a wholesale value of about $50, and costs the store $5 to process in paper work alone. Rules imposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission often require vans to return from their destinations empty, rather than let them pick up an available load. The National Commission on Productivity estimates that elimination of these rules could save $250 million per year. Though some of these and other potential savings might go to fatten stores' profits, chances are that because the supermarket business is hotly competitive, a large share would be passed...