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Slang; a stock or other security that an analyst recommends his or her clients buy. For example, an analyst who is bullish on tech stocks may choose Google and Facebook as his picks.

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The pickpockets were apprehended by officers of NH and MP sub-inspector Islam Gul and Zubair Ur Rahman during routine patrolling, the spokesman of motorway police told reporter here.

Motorway police apprehends two Pickpockets

The policemen stopped the bus and apprehended the five suspects that passengers identified as pickpockets.

Rookie cops arrest 5 Makati bus pickpockets

"Being a pickpocket is like being a gunslinger - you've got to believe you can do it.

He's a good actor but could be a great thief; EXPERT CROOK TRAINS STAR FOR MOVIE

CRIME THE latest police crackdown on unscrupulous pickpockets has been launched by West Midlands Police.

Police in drive to halt pickpockets; CRIME

As the Olympics draws millions to London, organised gangs of pickpockets are on the rise across the capital.

They've got to pick a pocket or two

A family of Bulgarian pickpockets stole more than GBP 100,000 from commuters in London to their fund property ventures at home.

Bulgarian Family Stole GBP 100 000 from London Commuters*

TWO professional pickpockets from Liverpool, who targeted vulnerable pensioners as they boarded buses across the North West, have been jailed for a total of six years and eight months.

Pickpockets who targeted OAPS jailed; Pair stole from vulnerable bus passengers

In the past two years, these tactics cut the number of pickpocket crimes by a third.

Shoppers helped thwart pick pockets

The ugly streets of turn-of-last-century England gobble him up and he is lured to crime by Fagin--a greedy mastermind running a pickpocket enterprise made up of destitute children.

Picking-off this risk manager

A six-year-old arrested even tried to pickpocket an immigration officer.

6-yr-olds at 'Fagin' schools

HUGGING BANDIT CAUGHT Police in Buffalo, New York, think they have caught a serial female pickpocket who has been robbing drunken US men for a decade.The "Hugging Bandit" was a plus-size pickpocket who put the squeeze on tipsy men, distracting them by fondling them and then secretly stealing their wallets.

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Karen Schwabach's A PICKPOCKET'S TALE (037583379X, $15.95) tells of a tough ten-year-old pickpocket in 1730s London who becomes an indentured servant to a Jewish family in New York City.

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