Word: packed
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...harmful to other people. Only when combined with illegal or negligent behavior do they pose a threat to others. Smoking, even when done in accord with all current laws, can still have deleterious effects on those who must silently suffer its second-hand effects. If I drink a six-pack in a crowded cafeteria, I can only hurt myself; second-hand smoke will hurt all those unlucky enough to be seated close to the smoker...
...love Harvard. I know people in the Quad and I think I'm going to be just fine. I just know that I'm going to need a bike and a heavy-duty back-pack," Allison said...
...long-term care and limits on out-of-pocket expenses for catastrophic illness. Under this plan, Medicare patients would foot 20% of their home-health-service bills, which is double what Clinton envisioned. The resulting savings of $6 billion, coupled with a cigarette-tax hike of $1.25 a pack, which would raise $16 billion in annual revenues, provides enough wiggle room to ease the burden on small-business owners. As Clinton had hoped, Stark's plan still requires all companies to pay 80% of insurance-premium costs for their employees; those with fewer than 100 employees have until...
...historic step. Under Engler's leadership, they replaced property taxes almost completely as a means of funding their 3,286 public schools. Instead, by a 69% majority, they agreed to raise the state sales tax from 4% to 6% and to increase the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 25 cents to 75 cents. At the same time, they adopted the Governor's proposal to raise the minimum amount the state's schools must spend per pupil from...
...power, it can be an easy animal to kill. Many cats in the Ranthambhore park have died from poison that villagers sprinkled on animals that the tigers had killed and temporarily left on the ground. Other cats have fallen victim to the hunters of the Mogiya tribes, who pack high- powered rifles and shotguns. Middlemen pay them $100 to $300 per animal (a huge amount in an area where an average wage...