Word: packs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even before the report was released, the industry-funded Tobacco Institute denounced it as "more rehash than research" and asserted that the links between smoking and disease have not been proved conclusively. Institute Vice President Bill Dwyer accused Califano, who kicked his three-pack-a-day habit in 1975, of displaying "all the zeal of a reformed sinner." Added Dwyer: "America beware if Joe Califano ever gives up drinking or other pleasure pursuits, even the most intimate...
...beginning of the 20th century, the 14th was used principally to protect property, not the disadvantaged. The court protected business from government regulation, thwarted unionization and struck down minimum-wage and maximum-hour laws. That trend began to fade only in the late 1930s, after F.D.R. threatened to "pack" the court with liberals to get his New Deal through...
Huber started the pack rolling at 13:36 when she popped a rebound past Ellis off assists by Fischer and Streeter. The same combination clicked again during a goalmouth scramble at 15:16 to give Harvard a lead it never relinquished. Only fourteen seconds later, Lauren Norton converted a rebound as Alice Hill and Firkins Reed picked up assists on the play for a 3-1 margin before Dartmouth...
...first place continue to prevent necessary reforms in Arizona. The state's natives knew what to expect from the beginning. "These Easterners," exclaimed one Arizonan with exasperation, "they all come out here and flap their wings and think everything is going to change overnight. Well, it hasn't. They pack their bags and leave, and everything stays just the same." There have been reforms, of course, but they have been infrequent and half-hearted, designed more to placate the public than to remedy the problems. And in a certain sense, the token reforms are almost worse than no reforms...
...last distinguished academic to pack so much brimstone in his scholarship was Lasch himself in Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged (1977). The Culture of Narcissism shares that book's formidable intellectual grasp and the kind of moral conviction rarely found in contemporary value-neutral history and sociology. But the book also shares the early work's redundancy and disjointedness...