Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight states, sheltering more than 250,000 acres, including 13 barrier islands off the coast of Virginia that it bought for $10 million. Says Orrin Pilkey, a Duke University geologist and one of the country's top experts on beach erosion: "Retreat is the ultimate solution. Property owners must pack up and move...
...grandchildren and great-grandchildren too. A highly active investor, Bonner, an 80-year-old Houstonian, has built up a handsome portfolio by studying financial news assiduously, visiting her discount broker every morning and afternoon to keep tabs on the market and making her picks ahead of the professional pack. "I am not all that smart, I've just got some common sense," says Bonner, a former artist and pharmacist. Institutional investors take note: right now Bonner likes oil and pharmaceutical stocks...
...taking probably caused only psychological dependency. Dr. Jack Blaine, the chief of treatment research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says, "Giving this up is more than giving up one's morning coffee and less than giving up cigarettes." Kitty Dukakis might agree. She still smokes a pack...
...Americans on a payroll that had already been cut sharply by the transfer of schools and other responsibilities to the U.S. Army. Now there are fewer than 1,200 U.S. citizens employed by the commission. This year, and every year until the handover, about 100 more will pack their bags. By the year 2000 only a tiny handful will remain. Most departing Americans will have to clear lumps from their throats at farewell parties. "Hell, you are working for the world on this job, not just the U.S. Government," says Commission Hydrologist Frank Robinson, 59, who will soon retire...
...temerity to claim victory when the debate was over. But in the chaotic pressroom afterward, the Gephardt and Dukakis camps jousted with each other, as if to signify they were now both at the front of the Democratic pack. The two candidates had briefly skirmished over trade in the debate, with Gephardt defending his get-tough amendment ("It's not protectionism, it's promotionism") and Dukakis staking out the internationalist position ("I'm somebody who believes that more trade is better than less trade"). Gephardt, who has been searching for a debating foil since Gary Hart left the race, took...