Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arabia are hand-in-glove with the enemies of Islam, and Muslims everywhere must unite and overthrow their "lackey governments." As a security measure, the Saudis are banning Iranian pilgrims from visiting Shi'ites in the east on their way to Mecca. Khomeini's strategy is to pack the ranks of pilgrims with Muslim zealots, known as Hezbollahis (members of God's party), as he attempts to stir up trouble in Saudi Arabia...
...joyless and humiliating for the average Iranian to allow for any attachment to the status quo. All basic commodities are supposed to be rationed. In fact, rationing is an excuse for black-marketeering. Clergymen in charge of militiamen's committees run the rackets. Their agents sell a pack of cigarettes at $5, about five times the official price, under the counter. Car owners, restricted to 40 liters (10.56 gal.) of gasoline a month, pay about $21 for an extra 20-liter (5.28 gal.) ration coupon, a hefty addition to the $7.50 cost of the gasoline. Every child is allowed...
This standard-size carrier bristles with surveillance devices, many of which are disguised as everyday items that can make paranoid executives feel as invulnerable as a Fort Knox guard. A cigarette pack in the case lights up to warn that a tape recorder is present. An ordinary pen illuminates when a "bug" is located near by. A supersensitive sniffer detects hidden bombs...
Once a brand is established and costs are met, each extra six-pack means more profits. Two weeks ago, Anheuser-Busch reported six-month profit gains of 24% over 1981 levels while selling only 10% more beer. That showed just how large profits can be once a firm is able to swallow the huge cost of launching a national product. As one beer executive points out, the drink's ingredients cost less than the bottle or can that it comes in and the advertising that is used to sell...
...same group of customers, that 20% of American beer drinkers who consume eight out of every ten cans sold. These prime customers are both white-and blue-collar workingmen between the ages of 21 and 40, many of whom drink several cans a day, the prototypical Joe Six-Pack...