Word: packed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...devoted to traditional classes in history, science, English, math. In the afternoon students put the lessons to work. They memorize multiplication tables not only to score well on problem sets but also so they can keep double-entry books, write checks, bill customers and complete financial audits. Says Gladys Pack, Yonkers' assistant superintendent: "We're making learning real because kids in Micro believe they're living in a real world...
...Great Miami River, which runs like a racial moat between very black West Dayton and very white East Dayton. Where blacks and whites do coexist, it's often a case of what Dayton Mayor Richard Dixon calls "temporary integration" -- meaning that whites simply haven't had time to pack their bags...
...Thesaurus" is a mouthful; it does not roll trippingly on the tongue. Nor do its plural forms, the highfalutin thesauri, or thesauruses, which sounds like a prehistoric creature. Thesaurus means treasury or storehouse, but nobody calls Nicholas Brady Secretary of the Thesaurus or says, "Dear, pack up your winter underwear and lock it in the thesaurus...
...steroids and alcohol. But this is the strongest evidence yet. Researchers monitored nearly 18,000 male physicians and more than 50,000 female nurses for five and eight years respectively, asking about smoking behavior and checking the incidence of cataract surgery. The conclusion: men who smoked more than a pack a day ran twice the risk of nonsmokers for developing lenses cloudy enough to require their removal; women who so indulged had a 60% greater risk than their abstemious counterparts. Both men and women lowered their chance of developing cataracts if they stopped smoking -- but still got them more often...
Male friendship, to judge from television commercials, is both natural and automatic -- just get a bunch of guys together, down a six-pack and cement lifelong bonds by being there when the Swedish Bikini Team arrives. Reality, of course, is a bit more complicated. Think of the extremes modern men actually go to in their quest for fellowship: bonding by beating on drums in pseudo-Indian rituals, forming Rotisserie baseball leagues to talk trades on the telephone like seven-year-old boys and, yes, campaigning for national office on the same ticket...