Word: picked
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HUPD became involved in the case two weeks ago, when a UIS employee reported someone had tried to pick up three laptop computers and one desktop computer valued in excess of $12,000 that he had ordered using a credit card. The man could not produce proper identification, and fled when the desk clerk turned his back, the caller reported...
...more obscure achievements, will total more than $920,000 each. And that's not counting the market value of the gold medallion or the expenses-paid trip to Stockholm. After the ceremony, formerly impecunious researchers will find themselves awash in funding, showered with speaking gigs and offered their pick of jobs. Their opinions will be solicited on every subject under the sun, including matters light-years from their area of expertise...
...followed by Marshall's wife, "he was devastated," Van Dyke said. Only after an extensive recovery program at the local strip joints did he regain his vigor. "I said, 'I heard you're in love again. Who is it?'" Van Dyke says. "He said, 'Go to the drugstore and pick up this month's Playboy...
Taxes, of course, are the big reason. If you never sell, you'll never owe Uncle Sam a dime of your gains in your lifetime. The futility of timing the market's peaks and valleys is also an issue. Can you really pick good exit and entry points? Probably not well enough to make...
...Donner's Free Willy saved him. The 1993 Warner Bros. movie was a hit and was followed by an international public outcry, led chiefly by children, when it turned out that Willy in real life was Keiko, a sick and far from free whale. In January 1996, UPS helped pick up the tab for flying him in an ice-water-filled crate to a new home in Newport, Ore.--a $7.3 million pool, four times the size of the Mexican tank, with pumped-in, 37[degrees]F seawater deep enough to dive in. The pool was built with contributions from...