In this workers' market, anyone with a measurable pulse and two fingers to peck at a keyboard is employable.

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She is distressed by how many worshipers peck at phones during service, sometimes hiding them underneath prayer shawls or behind purses.

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Before her operation Becky could not peck at food on the ground so her seed was gathered into little mounds so she could feed.

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Consider the status quo: To operate computers, most people peck away at keyboards and use a mouse to scoot a digital pointer across the screen.

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Art Peck, an analyst at Boston Consulting Group, says that the real money in the digital home will be made by those providing a service or selling advertising.

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Kristi Peck teaches English and theater at a Tipton, Iowa, high school.

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Lee Peck, who worked with Mr Smith at ITV Meridian's former TVS studios in Southampton, described him as a "larger-than-life character".

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On my very first trip with my new State FFA officers in 2005, we stopped at an elementary school on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation to ask for directions to the high school.

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Highlights include recordings of the Beatles at the Royal Albert Hall in 1963, Gregory Peck playing the piano, and an entire Kenneth Williams Playhouse comedy series.

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At his swearing-in he gave the king a perfunctory peck on the shoulder, not a full bow-and-kiss on the hand.

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