To provide a "cover story," we always said it was for some community improvement program, picking up trash or painting sidewalks and so forth.
The ship that houses the museum played a minor role in the space program, picking up astronauts after they splashed down upon returning from space.
In addition to wine-related activities, Mondavi offers business meeting attendees an opportunity to join in a garden-to-table program, picking and preparing produce from the gardens.
And it may turn out, Mr. Ehrenhalt cautioned, that if the program picks up steam, the apparent parallel to the 2000 election results will evaporate.
In 2002, Mr. Graham enrolled in the state's anti-AIDS condom distribution program, picked up 30,000 free condoms and discarded them.
Among other things he noted the centrality of the oboe band to musical life in the court of Louis XIV and beyond, and the program picked up with more music from "Alceste".
They bought the 240D for about $9,500 from a Mercedes-Benz dealershin iNew Jerseyey, but took advantage of the company's European delivery program, picking up the car at the factory in Sindelfingen, Germany.
The debate illustrates a central paradox of the government's loan program: picking untried technologies raised the likelihood of backing a company that might fail and be unable to repay the loan, as Solyndra did.
In his first 100 days, he announced a new evaluation process for superintendents, planned the city's largest-ever summer school program, picked fights with wayward community school boards and created a fast-track training program for teachers.
Pretending that we have a robust counterterrorist program picking apart Mr. bin Laden's organization -- while he and his followers nearly sink an American destroyer in Yemen -- is delusional and dangerous.
