The Mets use about a half-dozen information services — some for data, others for analysis — picking from a crowded field of vendors that continue to raise baseball's standards for objective evaluation.
A little girl wearing a T-shirt with glittery letters spelling "Sunshine" offered me a bouquet of yellow wildflowers that she had picked from a nearby field.
Two local specialties, picked from a nearby field earlier in the day, were on the menu: fresh corn and watermelon.
JAMES CATACOSINOS remembers the days in the late 90's when an exuberantly self-confident 20-something entrepreneur armed with little more than a business plan could pick and choose from an field of deep-pocketed potential investors, returning phone calls -- or not -- from people ready to sink millions into what was often little more than an unproven idea.
Every morning, blossoms are picked from the fields of Gujarat and Maharastra and are rushed to flower-hungry Mumbai, where they are sold under the overpass by Dadar Station.
Los Angeles County voters are soon to pick a new sheriff from a field of seven candidates, each with a reasonably decent chance of making it to a runoff, and it's hard to overstate both how unusual and how momentous that is.
City Manager Saundra Kee Borges said she picked Mr. Marquis, 48, on Wednesday from a field of five candidates because of his "different perspective" as an outsider with no allegiance to any local political or police groups.
Here, you want to pick from a variety of eyes.
Together they lay flowers on the fresh mound of earth, a bouquet of daisies and other brightly coloured wild blossoms picked from the field.
Colonies of M. aeruginosa were picked from field water samples by using a glass micropipette under a microscope, and cultured in a 1 1 mixture of liquid MA medium [ 16] and autoclaved field water filtrated using a nylon net filter with 0.22 μm pore size (Millipore).
