It allowed them to pick up points they had dropped earlier in the campaign, when their form was patchy.

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Only then did she pick up what Roscoe had dropped.

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When one of his customers wouldn't pick up the phone, he dropped by the guy's warehouse.

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On Tuesday, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev came to an auto-body shop to pick up a Mercedes he had dropped off for repairs, said Gilberto Junior, who works at the shop.

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"No-one is dropped in a World Cup tournament, you just pick a different team, " said Ashton when asked about the omission of Dallaglio.

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We were greeted by the sight of a second cruise ship that dropped off supplies and amazingly we were able to pick up a cell phone signal from the other ship.

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Mr. MASINO: Some are--where they're just actually--the mother was picked up off a roof and she was dropped here, and then they went back to pick up the children and the helicopter took them here, and they all went different ways.

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Liuzzo dropped off her passengers in Selma and returned with Moton to Montgomery to pick up more marchers.

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Once Weinberger perfects his any-language chip, other developers could piggyback on it to program the devices for an even better consumer feature--the ability not only to adapt to any wireless format, but also to pick the network that is less jammed with other callers, avoiding dropped calls.

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As a result, account owners can cherry-pick among their various Roth accounts and undo only the conversions that have dropped in value, leaving the others to increase.

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