Baseball and poker players spend lots of time picking up signs, moving into position and working the count, but every once in a while, they have to step up to the plate and come through.
Unlike apes which spend much of their time picking dirt and lice off their skin and fur, elephant preening is more about rolling in mud than removing it.
Until it does, David Cameron will have plenty of time to wonder if picking up the phone to Sir Brian Leveson was really such a good idea.
Manufacturers were less concerned with making cars more aerodynamic than with streamlining time, picking up the pace of obsolescence.
But prices of DRAMs (dynamic random access memory chips) have continued to fall and there are few signs of demand picking up any time soon.
The style-philes have a difficult time picking just one or two of 2009's trends that they loved, but nearly everyone can agree that the asymmetrical dress was one of the best, if only because it was flattering on nearly everyone.
Enabling access to this function through BMW Apps allows drivers to use the car's familiar controls to share their location and arrival time while en route, without the dangers of picking up their phone.
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For one thing, most of the cable companies, like Comcast, Time Warner and Cablevision, also have cable networks. (Time Warner Cable in no longer technically part of the broader Time Warner.) They want their competitors taking all of their stations, not cherry-picking them.
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The science today shows, says Fisher, that virtually all stock-picking techniques are a waste of time.
"Just biding my time, picking my spots, " Berggren said of his only 3-point attempt in a 4-for-4 performance from the field.
Picking up trekking poles ahead of time would have been smart.
His half brothers, who were in their teens by the time Robbins was born, learned the basics of shoplifting and picking pockets from an uncle and later graduated to more serious crimes.
At the same time, the growth of other mobile devices such as tablets is picking up serious momentum.
Picking a model that subsequently spends an inordinate of time in the repair shop can quickly siphon away any savings realized from buying a used car in the first place.
Worse was to come for the Second Division side, who earned a 0-0 draw in the first meeting of the sides in Paisley, as Travner delivered from the left, this time picking out McGowan with a low ball.
According to these researchers, at any given time, each of us has around hundred pursuits, ranging from mundane aims, such as picking up toilet paper on the way home from work, all the way to lofty ambitions, such as changing the underlying social structure of the western world.
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This kind of thinking only alerts my inner contrarian and suggests that it may be a great time to be picking stocks.
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Given the volatility of the stock market in the past two years, market picking a list of stocks to hold for the entire year is a waste of time as very few stocks stay in sustained up trends for an entire year.
They argue that we should not be extending credit at a time when we are broke, we should not be picking winners and losers, and that these sorts of transactions amount to crony capitalism and favor big businesses.
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He also has a knack of picking up enemies, both great (George Pataki, the state governor, may spend more time supporting the presidential bid of George W. Bush) and small: Mr Giuliani has broken what is arguably the first commandment of authoritarian politicians by waging war on New York's taxi-drivers.
As it has for some time now, the portfolio is currently finding more buys using the growth approach, which is responsible for picking eight of the stocks in the 10-stock portfolio.
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