Word: packed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chairs and folding tables, an easel with newsprint and a wipeboard on one wall. The tables are covered with piles of paper, technical manuals (including Presentations for Dummies) and cables from the team's numerous laptops and cellular phones. The whole set-up is remarkably impermanent--the team could pack up and leave in about 20 minutes without leaving a trace...
...Wang announces that she is ready to get going. We pack up in about three minutes and are on our way to the airport. She has apparently had a number of travel mishaps during her short time as a business analyst, one of which left her no option but the very undergraduate Greyhound bus. As she steps out of the cab, there is no doubt that the bus is fresh in her mind...
...Still running on consultant time, Wang arrives at her gate five minutes before boarding begins. She picks up a magazine for the flight and joins the pack of weary business travelers. Tomorrow, she'll be back in PRTM's office in Waltham, working on non-client business and tidying loose ends. On Monday, she'll board another plane and return to the client, the team room and the scramble to prepare a "major, major" presentation only five weeks away. But Wang can't be bothered with any of that now; she has a plane to catch...
...ECAC's top nine teams all have winning conference records because the bottom of the pack has been struggling. Cornell (3-5-0, 3-5-0) is in 10th place and has an outside shot at a playoff berth. But the Big Red has two tough games this weekend against Northeastern and Providence...
...roommates who keep us company as we pack through the night, wisely advising us to remove stacks of textbooks from our suitcases, lightening our physical and mental loads...