Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team also misses the skills of senior Eric Walsh and junior Charlie Kittredge, an all-Ivy pick last year. Walsh decided not to play lacrosse this season, while Kittredge is currently on a leave of absence...
...Faith. In each case, the illegal profits would be spread among the conspirators. The speculator would pick up an immediate profit of $10,000 on the house (buying for $10,000, selling for $20,000). He would pass some of that along to the lending firm, which also charged high service and closing costs. The appraiser, usually an independent operator who gets as little as $35 a house for his part-time FHA work, would get his bribe, as would the FHA inspectors involved in the scheme. The inspectors are full-time civil service employees...
...acreage claimed by tenants, landowners are being compensated in bonds and cash, payments spread out over an eleven-year period; the U.S. Treasury will pick up at least 75% of the $727 million total bill...
Another grievance concerns the Post's coverage of black affairs, which some staffers consider too stereotyped. Says one white reporter: "Pick up the paper any day, and you would think that all the blacks in Washington are either on methadone, are welfare mothers, or are running for Miss Teen-Age Black America...
...recording studio, bringing in top name musicians, and cutting an LP to give to 1,000 or so of his best friends and relatives. As the retired millionaire president of Ohio's National Machinery Co., he happens to be in a position to realize that dream-and to pick...