Word: packed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks ago, the Administration finally told McCain the price of the President's support: $1.10. That is, the Administration's budget figured on a deal in which the cost of a pack of cigarettes would rise $1.10 over five years. Some G.O.P. lawmakers gagged at the cost--privately they were still promoting the industry's interests. "We've got to go with the President's numbers," McCain cajoled a worried Republican in a phone call. "Otherwise we open ourselves up to the charge that all we care about is the tobacco companies...
Clinton: If I were just a private citizen, Joe Six-Pack, I would have mixed feelings about not getting a chance to disprove these allegations in court. After having been through what I've been through, I would have wanted to put all my evidence before 12 of my fellow citizens. But I don't have mixed feelings as President, because having the case dismissed and putting this behind us is plainly in the best interest of the country. Every President since George Washington has talked about how the country deserves the President to free himself of his own personal...
When pollster John Zogby recently asked people to rate the century's Presidents, F.D.R. led the pack, even though only septuagenarians and their elders can remember him in the White House. Historians and political scientists are unanimous in placing F.D.R. with Washington and Lincoln as our three greatest Presidents...
Biggest blunder: Tried to "pack" the Supreme Court...
...Basically, what we do is we go grab a six-pack and then throw a baseball around," says Kline. "We have accessories," he adds, referring to their equipment, which includes baseball gloves and a real baseball...