Word: lugged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into antipoaching units, they respond as trained soldiers would, withdrawing and firing, then scattering and rendezvousing hours or days later at prearranged sites. In Angola rebels help finance military operations with ivory. Among the larger bands of poachers, some men are designated as cooks, others as porters, assigned to lug the ammunition, mosquito netting and axes for cutting off tusks. Those who cross their path, be they ranger or tourist, risk death...
...fashion, the heroine enters to save the day. Michelle Pfeiffer stumbles in, three hours late, with broken shoes and a mouthful of chewing gum. She is Suzie Diamond, an entrancing former employee of the Triple A Escort Service. Tired of being the glittering wrist ornament of shoe vendors and lug-wrench magnates, Suzie hopes a nightclub microphone can lead her to a better life...
Perspective business manager John A. Felitti '91 said, "even people who would normally read the publication won't if they have to pick it up at the dining hall and lug it back to their rooms...
...Sandinistas undertook to wipe out illiteracy, and for a while they almost did. But the voracious military budget swiftly eroded the gains, and by 1985 illiteracy had shot up to 30%. Children lucky enough to go to school often lug their own desk and chair from home to class...
Luckily, some folks have come up with other solutions. After 10 or more years in which New Jersey refused to enact a bottle bill, Governor Kean finally declared the mandatory recycling program. Unfortunately, the plan has met organized resistance in suburbia. Suburbanites are protesting having to lug their bottles all the way to the recycling center--Ohmigod!--and refuse to recycle until they get doorstep pickup...