Word: packed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sell and buy tobacco, the city saves money in the long run. The meager profits made by vendors on tobacco sales are outweighed by the societal costs of teenage smoking. Each year 400,000 people die from tobacco-related illnesses. A study published last fall found that each pack of cigarettes sold costs society 55 cents for additional health care and 14 cents for extra life insurance for smokers. Most smokers begin their habits as teenagers; by eradicating the underage cigarette problem now, the city avoids the unnecessary costs of caring for ill smokers...
...make it awfully hard to declare victory there. Moreover, if Forbes or Gramm comes close to 20%, or if both do, commentators could yet call this a two- or three-man race heading into New Hampshire. "Thirty is now the goal," said a top Dole official. "If the others pack around 15, we're golden." If not, he added, "it's going to get spun that we didn't have enough and we have got to be ready to go to work fast in New Hampshire...
...early demise of the wildly expensive handmade-to-order business. Why then were the spring openings so vibrant, so full of beauty, craft and rich detail? At Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld outdid himself with a masterly display of chic invention and exquisite attention to fit; the pick of the supermodel pack were on hand, and they never looked prettier. At Dior, Gianfranco Ferre chose a theme of flowers--surely an invitation to cliche--and turned out a collection with lightness and youthful charm. Christian Lacroix produced a rhapsodic meditation on the skirt, recasting his famous pouf, draped rather than puffed...
This weekend's two opponents offer Harvard a rare opportunity to break out of the pack and surge to the top of the League. To do so, the Crimson must overcome a two week finals hiatus that ended with the New Hampshire game on Tuesday...
Consider this week's issue. When it became apparent that Steve Forbes was breaking out of the G.O.P. primary pack, in good measure on the strength of his flat-tax proposals and his personal fortune, our editors saw the perfect opportunity for a cover story examining both an important idea and the man who has tried to embody it. At the same time, however, the issue was to include TIME's second annual survey of the State of the Nation, a comprehensive snapshot of the social and economic condition of the U.S. today, and the national mood that arises from...