Word: packed
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Carnes also echoed statements by David W.Breneman, president of Kalamazoo College, whoearlier this year charged that the nation's 100most expensive and selective universities increasetheir tuitions to maintain an elite status andthus enlarge their applicant pools. Brenemanadmitted that he was following the pack himself...
...shores are also being inundated by waves of plastic debris. On the sands of the Texas Gulf Coast one day last September, volunteers collected 307 tons of litter, two-thirds of which was plastic, including 31,733 bags, 30,295 bottles and 15,631 six-pack yokes. Plastic trash is being found far out to sea. On a four-day trip from Maryland to Florida that ranged 100 miles offshore, John Hardy, an Oregon State University marine biologist, spotted "Styrofoam and other plastic on the surface, most of the whole cruise...
Washington is one of the few states with a comprehensive cleanup program. Three years ago, the Puget Sound water-quality authority developed a master plan for cleaning up the heavily polluted, 3,200-sq.-mi. body of water. The state legislature has levied an 8 cents-a-pack surtax on cigarettes to help pay the bill; this year the tax will contribute an estimated $25 million to the cleanup. The Puget Sound authority and other state agencies closely monitor discharge of industrial waste and are working with companies on ways to reduce effluent...
...Middle Americans are paying more for their hypocrisy than they realize. Democrats are so afraid of appearing "liberal" that they rejected a platform proposal to increase taxes on people making more than $100,000 a year. They wince as Bush scores points off of Dukakis' recent 5 cents-a-pack increase in the Massachusetts cigarette tax. Meanwhile, the annual Social Security surplus is contributing $40 billion a year toward covering Reagan's deficits, thanks to a Reagan-endorsed 1983 increase in the Social Security tax -- a flat tax on wages that exempts dividends, interest, profits and all income over...
...those outlaws of the past decade, those rebels against the deep-shag songwriting of mainstream Nashville, have become the '80s Establishment. There is a new pack out there now. Travis and Crowell. Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith. K.T. Oslin and the O'Kanes and the supercharged Steve Earle. They are shaking all the wrinkles out of the music and ironing it into a different shape...