Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think [the flight of business] is a promising trend. You have to go through breaking some eggs before the omelet appears. I'm not talking about industrial operations and their profits. I'm talking about people who, under a federal system, can come in from the outside, pick up our savings and ignore the majority around them. As long as we are under the present setup, we're exposed to blackmail by those bastards, and we're exposed to destabilizing intentions...
...have suggested that Israel should be giving more thought to building additional fields within its own borders, but either way, the costs are enormous. To rebuild Etzion 25 to 40 miles to the northeast would cost at least $1 billion?a tab the Israelis would expect the U.S. to pick up as part of the peace package...
...Pentagon warned defense contractors to be wary of what they said in messages carried by commercial satellites because the Soviets are listening to every word. Using innocent-looking vans or "ferret" satellites or balloon-supported towlines, trailing from submarines, that act as 2,000-ft. antennas, the Russians pick up microwave transmissions from telephones, radios and satellites. Last year they installed huge eavesdropping antennas near Havana to intercept messages sent from the U.S. overseas. At KGB headquarters in Moscow, 30,000 workers specialize in computer analysis of miles of taped transmissions. The U.S. can scarcely complain; some 4,000 Americans...
...either a Starlight Viewer with a camera adapter or an Intensifier Camera, both made by Law Enforcement Associates, Inc., a New Jersey electronics firm. Compact handheld devices, they retail for about $3,000 and can be operated along with earphones and a parabolic reflector or "dish" that can pick up normal speech up to 800 yds. away in an open space or in a room across a noisy street. The Starlight Viewer amplifies light 50,000 times and is perfect for nighttime surveillance; the intensifier needs some light but produces more sharply detailed photographs...
...after two years of study, a 58-member Democratic Party commission, headed by Michigan's state chairman, Morley Winograd, has proposed a set of reforms that would make campaigns somewhat less taxing for primary candidates. In addition, the reforms would make it tougher for primary also-rans to pick up convention votes, would allocate 25% of every state's delegation to members of minority groups and, most significantly, would make it somewhat more difficult for relative unknowns-like the Jimmy Carter of early 1976-to win the nomination...