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In a way, the senators facing recall, after residents gathered thousands of signatures on petitions, were picked less for individual acts than for fitting one of two categories.

By contrast, Mr Cain and Mr Moore appear to have been picked less for their experience and more for their loyalty to the President and have therefore provoked a great deal of political criticism.

Some regulations help: forcing restaurants to post calorie counts on dishes, for example, prompts diners to pick less calorific treats.

Senior aides to former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales broke Civil Service laws by using politics to guide their hiring decisions, picking less-qualified applicants for important nonpolitical positions, slowing the hiring process at critical times and damaging the department's credibility, an internal report concluded on Monday.

I headed West drinking some type of mocha-frappe-latte trying to figure out how steamed milk and some crushed beans, picked for less than five cents, cost me over four bucks.

These are many of the same people who pick at Lessing for refusing to call her best-known work, "The Golden Notebook," a feminist book.

Today, a membership in that club can be picked up for less than $300.

"There are now some fantastic tablets that can be picked up for less than £120.

Yesterday Saatchi tried to pour cold water on reports he was dumping the artist whose early installations he picked up for less than £10,000.

That is $100 more than it charged for the Wii in 2006 and would outstrip the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft Xbox 360, which can be picked up for less than $300.

A week ago, when the city seemed to be sliding out of the control of any recognisable authority, let alone that of the embattled president, Sali Berisha, a looted Kalashnikov could be picked up for less than $20.