Word: packed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lost a pack of cigarettes today, about 2:45 this afternoon. Camel Lights, Hard Pack. If anyone finds a pack with only one cigarette missing, none of them turned upside down, kindly return them to The Harvard Crimson, 14 Plympton Street, c/0 Loser. My health-nut friends, and maybe Elizabeth Bishop, would say it's a sign...
...Monday, Clinton said, "I believe that Roger Altman has been an excellent Deputy Treasury Secretary, and we want him to continue in that capacity." In Washington, where what isn't said is often more important than what is, those less than bracing words of support could have another translation: "Pack your bags...
...Then why the debate?" Kessler asked. The drug experts, who called the fight with tobacco companies over addiction "semantic," posed some intriguing possibilities for regulation. One proposal: limit the nicotine in individual cigarettes to make smoking "really a free choice." That way, most people could smoke up to a pack a day without becoming addicted...
...fact, it was on the small side, and the bigger chunks may pack up to 25 times the energy of the first. From what the experts could see Saturday evening and Sunday morning, they were confidently predicting plenty of fireworks before the last piece hits Jupiter early Friday. They were also forecasting a flood of major scientific results. The full story of Shoemaker- Levy 9's demise won't be known for a month or more, until all the reports come in from satellites and observatories, and scientists process them...
Such priorities wouldn't be so offensive, if the television news pack admitted that they were nothing more than ordinary Hollywood purveyors of prurience. The cascade of innuendo, inaccurate reports, relentlessly rebroadcast melodramatic tapes are "news" in the way that "America's Most Wanted" is "news". It deals with things that seem to have happened. If only ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox would admit that this is what they now mean by news, the rest of us could resign ourselves to the fact that there aren't 11 news programs in prime time, but 11 cousins of "America's Most...