Word: jacks
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Poison control centers were inundated with calls. Jack W. Lipscomb, director of the poison control center at a major Chicago hospital, said that anybody who had eaten a grape in the past three days and had a headache thought the culprit was cyanide. "We advised them of the fast-acting nature of cyanide, which takes effect in one or two minutes," he said. "Basically, if they're still alive and kicking to get to the phone, they probably don't have anything to worry about...
...worked out that way for residents of sparsely populated areas. Most economists would argue that the old system subsidized small-town Americans by requiring companies to provide services at a loss to such areas, but the U.S. traditionally saw rural development as worth the price. Says Jack Tierce, an administrator at the Kansas state corporation commission: "The transportation system of the U.S. was based on moving people from the densely populated East out West. Now it is driving people from rural areas into metropolitan areas." Cities get better service simply because customers are more concentrated and thus more profitable...
Also indicted was Jack Carlton Reed, co-defendant of the cartel leader...
...Which of these active pitchers has struck out the most batters--Oakland's Dennis Eckersley, New York's Tommy John, Detroit's Jack Morris, Chicago's Rick Sutcliffe or Los Angeles' Fernando Valenzuela...
...loved it," Fish says, referring to his 13 years as head coach. "I think we really did get the program back to the standard that Jack Barnaby and Harry Cowles [Harvard's coach from 1922-37] established...