While a Google hire might have to endure round after round of interviews, a savvy company can pluck off a candidate at the manager level and below by hitting him with an offer--and giving him or her just a few days to respond.

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The Siamese crocodile, which used to pluck picnicking princesses off the riverbank, according to French explorers, has already disappeared from the main river.

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As undercover officers, they could pluck the prostitutes off the streets as the girls or women worked the "track, " such as Metropolitan Parkway, or turned tricks at strip clubs, where underaged girls illegally danced.

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Attackers chop off their limbs and pluck out their organs, which are sold to witch doctors.

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The moments where Artyom has to fend off a monster that has pinned him to the ground, or pluck a mutant spider from the glass of his gasmask, are satisfyingly visceral.

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Henceforth someone trying to build an engine could pluck a standard 8-gauge, 32-threads-per-inch machine screw off the shelf.

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