Word: packet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to do a lot of name dropping." Margaret Sullivan, a Brandeis student and the second at 10 children, said on the bus. Others combed through the packet to compile lists of facts though one warned. "Don't quote any figures because you're likely to get them wrong anyway...
...this handy packet has a fault, it's the masterminds' regrettable tendency to gloss over the larger issues, preferring to plump for the stock phrases of money-making hype. No true follower is about to waste time reading now the tips within will help "understand the intimate nature of Pac-Man "and" use your own individual talents to design your personal Pac-Man strategy for maximum point potential." If you needed to be told about the "magnificent video game...one of the most ingenious thoroughly enjoyable games ever introduced to any public anywhere. "you probably wouldn't have gotten this...
Most student groups were not upset at the commission of the second packet, although some organizers said they should have been given greater notice of Epps's decision...
Only two groups--the Harvard-Radcliffe "Wood Drive and Hillel House--had contacted him about the second information packet. Epps said, and by avoiding the use of 6000 additional envelopes Harvard saved about...
...Yeats, works for the CIA and pilots a U2. But he is not a routine spy in the sky. Because a mole in the National Security Council has been passing policy secrets to the Soviets, Oakes is asked to fake a forced landing in the U.S.S.R. and allow a packet of forged documents to fall into enemy hands. The aim of this counterespionage is to neutralize a Soviet agent and drive a wedge into Chinese-Soviet relations. Can Blackie pull off this caper and get home in time for such bourgeois sentimentality as marrying his sweetheart and celebrating Christmas...