Word: leafed
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...comprehensive national survival program that has evolved over decades under the direction of the President, the National Security Council and a succession of crisis agencies, most recently the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Their wartime duties are spelled out in the Code of Emergency Federal Regulations, a loose-leaf notebook containing hundreds of pages of regulations, most of them drafted in the 1960s and '70s. Specific "action plans" are in agency vaults and relocation sites, to be implemented by officials in nuclear exile. Today's plans rely on redundancy. If one location is wiped out, others will take its place. Officials...
...money and endorsement contracts, but the money had to be deposited in trust funds. It amounted to money laundering for athletes. Funds for expenses could be withdrawn, and the whole could be cashed out upon retirement. Accountants could not even call this deferred income, but it was the fig leaf needed for eligibility...
...more of a leading role in the fight for abortion rights, which he backs but for which he has in the past let others fight. "Tactically," said Harrison Hickman, a Democratic pollster, "you want to focus on getting those people out to vote. Strategically, you have to take a leaf from Perot's book by establishing your leadership credentials...
Cigars have a tobacco "filler," an internal "binder" and an outside "wrapper." Low-priced stogies are made of chopped tobacco filler, machine wrapped with rolled sheets of pulverized leaf, water and natural gums. Around 2.3 billion machine-made cigars are sold in the United States, down from 9 billion in 1964, when Americans briefly substituted cheap cigars for cigarettes in the wake of the Surgeon General's report...
Premium cigars, unlike machine-made cigars, are constructed of whole tobacco leaf compressed by hand into the "long" filler, which is held together by whole-leaf binders and wrappers. Serious smokers debate tobacco blends and cigar construction almost as passionately as wine lovers worry about tannin content. Consolidated Cigar executive vice president Richard L. Dimeola offers some tips to the novice: if it draws too easily, it was "underfilled," and the air pockets will cause a fast burn and a hot smoke. If possible, check the cigarmaker's "leaf inventory." If the company isn't stocking enough tobacco to skip...