Things picked up later in the 1990s with the Saturday night ITV quiz Man O Man, before he landed the compere's role in Who Wants to be a Millionaire? in 1998.
But things have picked up since then and Bell performed quite well in the one televised debate held during the race.
These are just a few of the things I picked up from the energetic and enthusiastic giver, Pamela Bellesen, who runs Wide Mouth Frog Designs.
Its governor Sir Mervyn King said he expected the economy to avoid a double-dip recession and that some businesses had indicated things had picked up at the start of the year.
To be sure, things have certainly picked up some since the recession, when some clients flat-out refused to pay rate increases.
Republicans either take their talking points from Fox News or say things to get picked up on Fox News, but are really laser focused on bullet no. 1.
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"Chris has done fantastic since he converted to rugby union but it's looking at someone like that and how he picked things up and made the transition and follow in his footsteps, " he said.
He picked up things that the best in the army couldn't grapple with.
He picked up things there that he could have learnt nowhere else, such as hypnotising a chicken, an animal that has, if involuntarily, contributed much to medical research.
HSBC's attempt to breathe life into its investment banking arm had failed, and things still haven't picked up.
It is good we have picked up these things now and we have learnt a lot from these first few games.
"An aunt or my mother or some other strong female in my life might have picked up on things I didn't pick up on, or thought of questions I didn't think of, " she says.
He kicked things about for a moment before he picked up the proper keys.
Institutions like Fannie, Freddie, and AIG profited handsomely during the run-up, but the government picked up the tab when things went bad.
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Some went to the grocery store, I see, and picked up a couple of things that these families will need, and I appreciate your generosity.
"We started out poor (in Ohio and Indiana), picked up in western Illinois where things were better than we had seen, but heading into western Iowa was another disappointment, " said Christina McGlone, head of ag research at Deutsche Bank who was on the tour.
While these two things are certainly relevant, the new system also picked up two more cues that nobody had noticed before.
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Things got even more interesting when defender Jonny Evans picked up an injury with 15 minutes left but was forced to play on as United had used up all three of their substitutes.
Residents inundated the city with phone calls as many as 600 a day about the trash-collection system, trying to figure out such things as how oversize and oddly shaped items would be picked up.
New York police officer David Brink donated a suitcase full of things to the museum, including a pair of gloves he picked up in a hospitality tent set up at ground zero.
Some things are in his favour: prices for Argentina's farm exports have picked up, and the economy, having pulled out of a four-year slump in 2002, was expected to grow by around 5% this year.
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