Word: packed
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Moruca said the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences led the pack with 300 unclaimed ID cards, which students can pick up at the Office of the Registrar...
Ooooh! Love to love you, baby. A smarmy Sammy Davis Jr. put the big squeeze on Nixon at the G.O.P. convention, symbolizing the Rat Pack's wholesale desertion of the Democratic Party ship...
Some of the more intriguing objections: cigarette makers, targeted for a tax of around 75 cents a pack to help pay for the plan, have been howling "No fair." They insist that any "sin" taxes should fall on liquor as well as smokes. Some feminists, while enthusiastically pro-reform, gripe that Clinton's plan does not pay enough attention to women's special health problems. For example, they say, it would be too stingy in paying for mammograms...
...streets in Dade County alone, and people are losing patience with a revolving-door justice system that rotates criminals back onto the streets practically as fast as they are caught. Miami has the highest violent-crime rate of any American city, and even former priests have been known to pack pistols in their briefcases. So far, however, the tourists are still coming, even if some may be thinking about packing a mercenary kit with their suntan lotion...
Overall, the President's plan would cost a budget-boggling $700 billion over five years, half of which represents new spending. Clinton proposes to cover the cost mainly through a new $1-a-pack tax on cigarettes and savings in existing federal health-care programs, with $91 billion left over to reduce the federal budget deficit. Meanwhile, the plan promises...