Word: packed
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...include the pilot. A small Cessna, on the other hand, weighs more than 1,700 lbs., and a standard parachute big enough to float such a craft safely to the ground would fill up a 50-gal. drum. Not very practical. Undaunted, the BRS engineers figured out how to pack the parachute under pressure in such a way that it takes up no more space than a large briefcase and is mounted over the center of the wings. If the craft's engine conks or another plane clips the Cessna's tail off, all the pilot...
Redemption earns even more glory among evangelicals than consistent faith and virtue. And for Ralph Reed, sudden self-reform has always come easily. A heavy smoker as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia in the early 1980s, he pitched his pack of Marlboro Lights out a car window one day and never bought another. Booze was also a problem, so he went instantly dry during the summer after graduation. Weeks later, sipping soda in a Washington saloon as some pals drank harder stuff, he was seized by a thirst for "deeper spiritual meaning" in his life. Reed chose...
...check the movement of social conservatives toward Pat Buchanan. Their expectation was that Christian Coalition would get credit, and legitimacy, for securing the critical margin of support. In exchange, Bush's handlers accepted many of Reed's choices for delegates to the convention and allowed the religious right to pack the platform committee. The upshot: Bush seemed a prisoner of his party's extreme right, and the conservatives took a mostly bum rap for Bush's defeat...
...snobbish, class-ridden society, 75% are convinced that the royal family lead indolent, jet-set lives, and only 3% predict that Britain will remain a world power in the next decade. Such responses may explain why, when asked if they would like to leavethe country, 47% said they would pack their bags before teatime...
...TIME WHEN THE ENVIRONmental movement seems in desperate need of a champion, the most likely candidates have gone AWOL. Vice President Al Gore, the author of Earth in the Balance, has strayed to other issues as he tries to keep up with Hillary and the pack of FOBs in the hyperactive Clinton Administration. Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland devoted much of the 1980s to helping develop a global ecological agenda, but her reputation has plummeted since Norway resumed commercial whaling in defiance of an international...