Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...burly wrestlers pound one another with knee drops, punches and head bashes. The crowd becomes a mob, chanting in unison, waving American flags, demanding more. Suddenly a gong rings. As the hot, white lights above the ring switch off, fans stream outside into blinding sunshine. Inside, the wrestlers pack up and leave for the night matches in Austin...
...underlying the quiet commitment is a winning attitude that may bring the Crimson lightweights a little closer to the head of the pack tomorrow...
...closing chaos was a fitting fade-out for the 98th Congress. Its finest hour was its first; almost as soon as it convened in early 1983, it passed a bipartisan pack age of tax and benefit changes urgently needed to save the Social Security system from bankruptcy. But from there on, bickering between the Republican White House and Senate and the Democratic House blocked most positive accomplishments, an unhappy augury of what might be expected in the next two years if voters maintain that same power alignment...
...then ordered to read from classified documents into the tape recorder, remove the tape, hide it in a cigarette pack and hand it to a 67-year-old female courier. He was assured that the FBI "would never suspect an older woman." Agents seized the courier as she was preparing to board a plane for Czechoslovakia. Her real name turned out to be Alice Michelson, an East German citizen who taught Marxist studies at an East Berlin institute...
...competition has made cards a better bargain for its primary audience, boys ages 6 to 14. Each company offers a pack that costs 30? and contains 15 full-color cards plus a bonus...