Word: picked
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...Anthony J. Principi, Bush's pick for secretary of veterans affairs, isn't quite doing it all over again, but he was a deputy in the same department under Bush's father. Decorated Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, counsel to the Senate Veteran's Affairs Committee, California communications businessman, Principi is in charge of keeping 23 million veterans feeling like their country appreciates them...
...were to lose my mind right now and pick one of you up and dash your head against the floor and kill you, would that be right...
...post of Secretary of State, and Bush has all but said Condoleezza Rice will be his National Security Adviser. Rice worked on the NSC staff of Bush's father for two years and has been at W.'s side for six months. But Bush was finding it harder to pick someone to run the Pentagon, perhaps because everyone knows he will look first to Powell and Cheney on military matters. Already one top contender has withdrawn: with Powell's backing, Bush floated Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge for the spot, but Ridge withdrew about the same time that the G.O.P...
...example, might pick the response of radio's Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who, when asked about her statement that gays and lesbians represent "a biological error," said, "We have vaginas and penises." I could not agree more...
...novel, for example, Jane makes a momentous decision, at age 18, to leave her stultifying school and strike out on her own. She writes up a newspaper ad seeking employment, trudges miles to town in the rain to deliver it, then treks back a week later to pick up the one and only reply. It's a quietly stirring proto-feminist sequence, but here it is transmuted into the banal musical yearnings of a romantic teenage girl: "Over mountains, over oceans/Heaven take me away/For I long for my liberty/For sweet liberty I pray...