Word: packed
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...theory, at least, a citizen should have the right to protect himself if the state is unable to do so. But few would argue that anyone who enters a subway or walks lonely streets at night should pack a pistol and be ready for a shoot-out. By choice of vocation, thugs are handier with guns than are Wall Street brokers or Macy's salesclerks. Moreover, bystanders can get caught in the cross fire...
...arsenal permanently airborne and another that would have shunted 200 missiles in and out of 4,600 shelters along underground rail tracks, keeping the enemy guessing about which shelters were in use at any given time. The Reagan Administration even proposed, and then quickly dropped, a "dense pack" cluster of missiles on the theory that some of the weapons would survive an attack if they were concentrated in one location...
...Politburo has only ten members, in contrast to the 14 that had been usual under Leonid Brezhnev. But he probably will take his time in choosing his team, seeking instead to allay any suspicion that he is trying to monopolize power too quickly. "Gorbachev does not need to pack the Politburo with his own men," says one diplomat. "There do not seem to be any challengers to his rule...
Another Harvard men's basketball season has ended exactly like all the seasons that went before. For the 83rd year, no Ivy League title. Once again. Harvard in the middle of the pack...
Leader of the Pack...