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Word: picked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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...fiddler, Jostrom had not taken the typical course to learning his instrument. He would pick up most music by ear, listening to both records and fiddle players...

Author: By Warren Adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First-Year Releases Bluegrass CD | 10/12/2000 | See Source »

Although UMass was finally beginning to pick up its pace of play, time expired before it could generate another scoring opportunity...

Author: By Jared R. Small, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kelly Finishes to Lift M. Soccer of UMass 1-0 | 10/12/2000 | See Source »

Though the abortion debate could now land squarely back in the middle of the presidential campaign, both candidates mainly used last week's announcement to reinforce longstanding positions. While the next President can't reverse the FDA outright, he could pick an FDA commissioner and a Health and Human Services Secretary who would raise safety questions and try to tighten distribution--with the goal of making medical abortion just as hard to get as surgical abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pill Arrives | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...drill it cautiously. Cheney may have encapsulated the evening's major tone shift with one comment on fixing public schools: "We think we know how to do that." Hey - we're both trying to help, and each of us thinks we know how to do it best. So just pick where you want those trillions - and our attentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Debate Good Enough to Make You Want to Vote | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

...fires get out of control. Jos? baranek, for example, is one of the owners of a wood-products company called Cemex, and BR-163 runs right by his forest subsidiary?s 11,000-hectare property. He has had to take extraordinary steps, including creation of firebreaks and programs to pick up flammable forest litter, to prevent fire from destroying the timber operation he has built up over 22 years. Cemex?s wood-processing plant has the largest payroll in Santar?m, and the company?s timber property south of town is a model of forest management, which baranek hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Disaster | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

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