Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mission, like that of a similar Mossad raid in Beirut two years ago, was to seek out and destroy Palestinians known to be connected with recurring fedayeen attacks on Israelis. Two teams of six people each were chosen for the mission: a killer team and a spotter team to pick out their targets. The killers went first, leaving Israel around 8:30 on the night of June 11. It was an ideal time: the moon had set early and the sky was black. The six-five men and a young woman-assembled at an airfield in northern Israel and stowed...
Some public functions could be contracted out to private companies. For example, profit-making companies in the U.S. pick up garbage at a lower cost than city sanitation departments do, and United Parcel Service often delivers packages faster and cheaper than the U.S. Postal Service. Economist Walter Heller advocates a market approach to fighting pollution. His idea: levy stiff taxes on the discharge of effluents; the market would reward with high profits the companies that did the most to clean up the environment, and penalize polluters with skimpy earnings or actual losses...
...University Police are offering an anti-theft program for Summer School students. The program called Operation Identification, allows students to pick up an electronic engraver and take it home overnight after signing a check out form. The engraver is portable and easy...
...skies over the U.S. and on the ground to intercept and record the microwave transmissions. All this should come as little sur prise, since the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have engaged in such mutual electronic spookery for years. The Russians have merely caught up with the American capability to pick out by computer, needle-in-a-haystack style, interesting conversations from the many thousands bunched together in a single microwave burst. But sensitive U.S. Government phone calls are scrambled or coded, or both; codes are changed often. Adds an official of the National Security Agency, which supervises...
...catch up with the demand for rabbis. Yet at many Protestant seminaries across the nation, this year's graduating seniors are finding that even though jobs are available, the clerical market is showing signs of softening. Not too long ago, many newly minted ministers could expect to pick and choose among "calls" from four or five churches. Now they are receiving fewer offers and having to campaign more aggressively even for what were once considered less desirable positions: assistantships or pastorates at small rural congregations, with salaries of, say, $7,000 a year...