Word: picked
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...committee's last meeting, committee members postponed discussion of Smith's proposal until after spring break, when Smith says he would present a more detailed plan. They chose instead to comb through the constitution's text to pick out inconsistencies and errors...
...colorless, so ordinary a man you could not pick him out of a crowd. Prying eyes would slide right by the slight, spare figure with the bland, expressionless face. The perfect anonymity of a spy. He built a career on being a nonentity, the man you can't know, operating in the twilight world of cold war espionage, where power lies with the man who is a mystery to all but himself...
...crew of 262 to the Middle East, where they will prowl the northern reaches of the Persian Gulf. Their mission: to hunt down ships smuggling Iraqi oil in violation of United Nations sanctions. It's a game of nautical cat and mouse, as U.S. spy satellites and surveillance planes pick out possible smugglers and relay their whereabouts to ships down below. The smugglers are beyond the U.N.'s reach as long as they stay in Iraqi and Iranian territorial waters. But there are a few swaths of water beyond the U.S.-recognized 12-mile limit where the Jarrett and other...
This magazine has many audiences. Most important, of course, is our readers--those who judge us each TIME they pick up an issue or subscribe to TIME. We are also judged by our fellow journalists and by members of the advertising community. Over the past few weeks, they have awarded us a few accolades, for which we are grateful. Among them...
...disasters, are getting consumers to share more of the risk. In more than 12 "catastrophe vulnerable" states, insurers are making the deductible for catastrophic events a percentage (2% to 5%) of the home's insured value rather than a set dollar amount. This gives you a choice: you can pick either a lower-percentage deductible and pay a higher premium or vice versa. For example, if you have a $200,000 home in Florida with a 2% deductible, your annual premium is $2,372. Take a 5% deductible, and you save more than $200 annually on the premium. If disaster...