And it explains why the French so readily pick on America at times of self-doubt.
In the 2003 NBA Draft the Pistons owned the number two pick, and passed on Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony to pick the Serbian power forward so talented that a few pundits thought that Cleveland should take him with the first pick instead of LeBron James.
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The tractor beam is very selective in the properties of the particles it acts on, so you could pick up specific particles in a mixture.
Now, look, I have a reputation for giving cable a hard time, so let's pick on Politico for a while. (Laughter.) You know, people attack Politico for putting a new focus on trivial issues, political fodder, gossip sheet.
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So just to pick up on one point of perhaps disagreement, I would say that the thing that we need to be focused on, and I hope we will spend some serious time talking about it tonight is, what are the dynamics at work in this world?
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"In exactly the same way that a GP might pick up the first signs of an outbreak of bird flu etc, so the plant doctors can be there on the ground to pick up the first signs of a new pest, or something that has not been picked up previously, " Dr Nicholls explained.
Appearing without one of his customary ball caps, he explained that so much is going on at so many wells right now that he was hard pressed to pick a cap to wear.
So I'm going to pick on a few important things which are, I think, are indicative of what's going on in Egypt.
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These were much lower than those of its rivals, drawing accusations that it was trying to force them to mark their portfolios down to the same level so that it could pick up assets on the cheap in the ensuing wave of firesales.
You can include attachments, high quality photos and HD video, and your iMessages appear on all your devices so you can pick up a conversation right where you left off. iMessage includes group messaging, delivery and read receipts, typing indicators and secure end-to-end encryption.
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And I might add, they're both Republican governors -- so we didn't pick this based on politics.
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In the same manner that children who can pick up the complexity of language so can they thrive on complex ideas.
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Users do not have to fully disclose all their trades on the site, so they can cherry pick their performance to highlight only their best trades.
And while it occasionally failed to pick up on congested stretches, on several occasions it was so accurate as to the emergence of traffic that the route turned red just as conditions forced the car to slow to a crawl.
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They pick up the defense, and they have us on our heels, so we have to be cautious of that.
In fact, some analysts suggested the jewelry sector may carefully pick the times to buy, so that demand may most pronounced on pullbacks.
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As with the NOOK Reading apps, NOOK Video apps will seamlessly work together so customers can pick up watching right where they left off on any of their connected devices.
On the other hand, Rosneft can be confident of preferential treatment when it comes to the distribution of new production licences and so on, and will be well-placed to pick up the remaining assets of Yukos, when the company finally winds up altogether.
And of course the problem with that is that if you're the woman who's made a complaint, or indeed if you're Julian Assange and your name has been traduced so comprehensively, why on earth don't you pick up the phone and have a meeting?
It is this binary process, so if we had 28 countries turned on, we would pick our favorite 20.
The grants of immunity required a two-thirds vote by the committee, and so Republicans needed to pick up at least two votes from Democrats on the committee.
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In fact, he was so confident of collecting on his bet that he let Ehrlich pick any five commodities he liked -- and any future date at which the bet would take effect.
So Cameron decided to pre-empt them and to pick a fight on his own terms and at a time and place of his choosing.
"We focused a lot on usability and copied a lot of gamer interfaces so that users can pick it up pretty quickly, " said Sandia engineer Justin Garretson, the lead software developer.
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So stay on your plan if you have plan, and you will pick up some of those bargains if you are dollar-cost averaging.
If growth continues to pick up, on the other hand, bond yields will rise, perhaps sharply, and so will short-term rates, perhaps even more sharply.
As demonstrated in the video, at one point we resorted to a mere one dimensional "waggle, " which resulted in wild skips and jumps of our Nadal avatar, who managed to pick up tennis balls on either side of him, jumping as far as six feet or so away from just a tiny flick of ours.
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He's made so many memorable films but he hasn't bowed out on stage yet to pick up a golden statue.
But the next step could be the toughest as "the field is so wide open that it is difficult to pick even a handful of candidates who are on a shortlist, " said Salvadore Miranda, a Florida International University scholar who compiles data on the cardinals.
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