Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large aluminum cylinders); but none of these efforts has been successful. Now still another negative report has been filed. Using a detector at least as sensitive as Weber's equipment, IBM Physicists Richard Garwin and James Levine write in Physical Review Letters, they were unable to pick up any signal that could reasonably be called a gravity wave. The IBM researchers were not surprised...
...which is but a casual sideline to Mason. His real passion is magic. Whenever he does a commercial, his parents allow him to pick out a toy (top price: $8.99), and he invariably chooses some magic trick. Between takes on the set he demonstrates his prowess to the crews, and they in turn have taught him to play craps...
...street, or your friends come by on the way home." A young lawyer raised in New York City observes, "In New York, when you wanted a deposition from the other side in a lawsuit, you had to go through a heavy exchange of letters. Here I just pick up the phone and say, 'George, I need your client's deposition. Can we get together Wednesday?' So we do it then. No correspondence. No hassle." As Keating says, "There is a hell of a lot of mutual trust...
...down to 15. As in the other by-election losses, the Tories seemed to be hurt most by Britain's floundering economy and spiraling inflation. But the by-elections were equally a setback to Labor Leader Harold Wilson and his party. Labor not only failed to pick up dissatisfied Tory supporters, it even lost some of its own. Labor's problem, it appears, is that the party is so racked by internal squabbling and irresolute leadership that it often seems to be in worse shape than the country...
...locomotive cab. Carn stares down the twin ribbons of steel at a sea of green saltbush that reaches out in every direction to the circular horizon. No houses, no trees; only telephone poles rushing by at 60 m.p.h. interrupt his view. "We used to stop and let the passengers pick wildflowers," Carn says. "There are 7,000 different kinds...