More worryingly, he described picking up his favorite Urdu-language, pulp detective-fiction magazine in a Karachi bookstore and being startled by a passionate editorial denouncing the U.S. Predator drone attacks as a violation of Pakistani dignity and sovereignty.
One 18-year-old in Birmingham described picking up a bag of phones from T-Mobile in the city centre and throwing them into the air in the street.
Luckey described picking up a gun, aiming and firing it, then throwing it away using your hand exactly as you'd expect.
In one fairly wrenching scene he describes picking up his father following a cocaine binge in a flophouse; a parking lot attendant laughs when Dave explains that his dad has a drug problem and doesn't know where he left his car.
Shalaby describes picking up a Sisi poster as a cover to try to escape the area.
Wendy, a service manager in the north-east whose full name cannot be used for safety reasons, said children described going to flats above different, related, shops, others described being picked up by taxi drivers "well aware of where they were being taken".
"Drive out to Skilak Lake Road," suggested a woman who worked at the Kenai Princess Wilderness Lodge, where we spent the night, describing how to pick up the rutted dirt road that cuts through a corner of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge west of town.
In statistical jargon, this is known as "negative skew".Strategies with negative skew have been described as "picking up nickels in front of steamrollers".
Option-writing has accordingly been described as "picking up nickels in front of steamrollers".However, because several years can occur between fat-tail events, investors become complacent about option-writing.
Such strategies have been described as "picking up nickels in front of steamrollers".The more sophisticated the fund manager appears to be, and the more complex his model, the harder it is for the client to tell whether the strategy will produce skewed returns.
I knew some of the steps, but a video crew taping the lesson for the cruise ship's closed circuit TV channel fully captured my confusion at a new maneuver Juan called "The Cuban," which he described as "picking up a bag of potatoes and loading it on the truck".
