Word: pack
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some airborne smugglers try to bring coke or heroin through Customs in their baggage, an old-fashioned but sometimes successful ploy. Another, potentially deadly, technique is to pack the drug in condoms and swallow them or insert them in body orifices. If the package breaks, the carrier is likely to die of an overdose. One day last November, inspectors at New York's Kennedy Airport caught 13 smugglers who had swallowed or inserted their contraband...
...after graduation, known as the induction year, says Edward P. Droge, a UTEP advisor who monitors new teachers' progress. Harvard's program is designed to provide support during that crucial year. "We do not want to just let them go and say good luck. It separates us from the pack," Droge says...
While Harvard languished in the Ivy cellar, Brown (16-10 overall, 10-4 Ivy) reached the top of the Ancient Eight for the first time ever. Although the Bruins only joined the league in the 1953-'54 season, they had never finished at the top of the pack before...
...theory at least, there is a partial cure to the growing power of the influence-peddling pack: further limits on campaign expenditures and public financing of elections. But Congress is not likely to vote for these reforms any time soon, in large part because as incumbents they can almost always raise more money than challengers can. Certainly, most Congressmen have become wearily resigned to living with lobbyists. They are sources of money, political savvy, even friendship. In the jaded culture of Washington, influence peddlers are more envied than disdained. Indeed, to lawmakers on the Hill and policymakers throughout the Executive...
...That pack and her haphazard life-style had all but crippled her when she finally returned to the U.S. in 1972. Facing surgery, Pinckney decided instead to refine some exercises she had learned during years of adolescent ballet lessons. So impressive were the results that she began to teach friends in New York City, where she was living (and where she had changed her name to Callan on the advice of a numerologist). Enraged by what she considered misinformation in other exercise books, she spent two years writing her own. Pinckney contends that most exercises do not reach far enough...