Word: packet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...City, Calif., simply adopts animals from the San Francisco Zoo in her relatives' names. More than 130 zoos nationwide have adopt-an-animal programs, with average yearly adoption fees of $48. The money goes toward the care of the zoo's animals, and "zoo parents" usually receive an adoption packet that includes a photograph of--and facts about--the adopted animal. The gift is tax deductible too. "I'm no dummy," Micke says with a laugh. "I don't throw away my money on something they're never going to wear or look...
...published the initiative's schedule of events in a purple-covered packet distributed to the Houses. The packet includes a comprehensive list of campus women's groups and a ballot inviting students to vote on what future course RUS should take in light of Radcliffe College's merger with Harvard...
...Yale Bowl in celebration of its undefeated Ivy season. He also remembers The Game for a different reason. If things had gone his way, he would have been part of the celebratory side. Harvard was his first college choice, but he found a rejection letter in his Crimson admissions packet...
...type of missing treasure: lost, abducted and runaway children. With help from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the IRS will publish photos of missing children in its 1999 tax publications and instructions. One in six missing kids is found through such photos. So when your tax packet arrives this year, don't just toss it over to your accountant--look...
...addiction; witness the many old people you see in the street nowadays, who despite ill health and even lack of money, will simply carry on buying cigarettes. We've all seen old men rummaging around in their pocket for coins at a Walgreen's counter to buy their third packet of cigarettes that day--packs they probably can't really afford. Ask them why they still smoke, and they'll answer with a raspy voice, "I'm too old to quit." The opposite story, that of young people who thoughtlessly take up smoking, is just as tragic and common...