Word: picked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...place worth staying. Here and elsewhere, there are big groups of people--ministers and teachers and store owners and bureaucrats--who are prepared to give all their time and muscle to putting things right, making a place better. To the outsider, it would seem so much easier just to pick up and move on. Trying to stay, and to change, is an act of faith...
...home and get buried, although the truth is that when they die, no one comes, and they get buried right here on the Farm. Cain thinks he can summon hope through a four-year Bible college, or the amateur rodeo the prisoners put on every year, or having them pick cotton by hand in the fields that were once a real plantation, and still really are, for 4[cents] an hour...
Then, starting last fall, the district instituted a reform known as controlled school choice. It resembles other popular forms of school choice, such as vouchers and charter schools--only there's a twist. While Vicksburg parents took their pick of three schools closest to their home, the district used race as a consideration in making assignments, to achieve diversity in each school. After the numbers were crunched, 85% of parents got their first choice of school. Even more eye popping: the schools now boast near equal head counts of black and white students...
...ROLL Who knew transportation could prove this inspiring? The subject figured in both candidates' passel of proposals this week. As in the past, Al Gore outdid his Republican opponent, perhaps to make up for lagging poll numbers. Both men will have to pick up the pace, however, to meet our goal by election time...
...draft has traditionally been a sartorial Chernobyl, Jalen Rose's scarlet suit in 1994 being a retina-burning example. This year, though, most draftees displayed impressive understatement. Reason: many contracted with custom suit designers, thus top pick Kenyon Martin's more sedate look...