Word: picked
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...encourage you to pick a team to root for in the Super Bowl, even if you don't live in that city. Pick it based on whether you've visited the city, or based on the team's colors, or based on a particular affection, or hatred for a player...
Winning over Wall Street will require a prolonged process of--pick your noun--either education or spin. Music-business executive Danny Goldberg, a former head of Warner Bros. records, says the merger both "validates the Internet and validates the value of content." But it also forces the invention of a new currency to reflect it; as the AOL and TWX stock prices yo-yoed up and down last week, it was clear that investors had no idea how to put a price tag on something that was neither an Internet highflyer nor an old-economy cash-flow locomotive. AOL lost...
...commerce winners of 1998 were those with the slickest websites, the strongest players in 1999 were those who knew how to warehouse merchandise and pick, pack and ship customer orders in a timely manner. "Order fulfillment became very critical," says Anand Sharma, president of TBM Consulting Group, a firm that specializes in improving production lines. "You cannot win in this business without a supply chain that supports a quick turnaround...
...control events of nature have been visiting regularly for a few years now, of course. Think - to pick an example almost at random - of the summer of 1993, when rain poured down biblically for weeks and the Mississippi overflowed to become a vast, shallow brown ocean and submerged the Midwest's farms like an agricultural Atlantis. The entire country steamed like Bangkok; power systems died trying to satisfy the air conditioners' demands; old people keeled over in the doomy heat...
...often is the case in politics, the controversy surrounding Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Jane Swift in the last weeks has been more about her handling of the scandal than about the scandal itself. Swift was accused of having staffers baby-sit her young daughter and pick up her drycleaning, without pay. Her initial response was that as a working mother, she had added pressures which justified her actions. When asked why she had used a state police helicopter for a personal ride home before Thanksgiving, she responded, "I'm the lieutenant governor. And the lieutenant governor and the governor are allowed...