Word: pickup
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Back: Bill Clinton's Top 10 Pickup Lines...
...That's right. The players cheering Jordan so wildly were the very Argentines whom he was reducing to the level of kids playing pickup on the playground. No matter. "I played with great happiness against the monsters," Argentine center Hernan Montenegro said later. Added guard Marcelo Milanesio: "When we met at the center of the court, I was very excited that it was Magic Johnson shaking my hand...
...little reason to add new workers. That is partly because many firms have streamlined their operations and need fewer bodies, but also because firing -- not hiring -- has become the corporate norm. While Chrysler said last week it is investing $225 million to build a new line of Dodge pickup trucks in 1993, the company noted that it plans to add just 70 new jobs as a result of the program. "We're expecting to triple truck sales, and we're looking for a return to profitability," says a senior Chrysler executive. "Life is going to get a lot better...
Some of those images were, in their grotesque way, priceless: a woman staggering down the street trying not to scrape her new, no-down-payment dining room table on the pavement; another lady attempting to jam her stolen sofa onto a pickup truck already overladen with loot. Modern America's great guiding principle, shop till you drop, was in process of revision; steal till you kneel was more like...
There was Rob and Eric, two juniors at UMass, both lanky individuals jumping for their first time. There was Scott, 22 years old, driving a pickup truck and wearing a vain attempt at a moustache...