Word: packs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name on the list each week is that of Hempel, who used to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. Now he pays bonuses totaling $175 a week to 25 employees-13 who did not smoke in the first place and 12 who have curbed their habits. A receptionist happily reports that everyone is breathing "much nicer air" in the plant these days. "The implications for national health would be tremendous," Hempel says, if giant corporations like General Motors or General Electric adopted his old-fashioned capitalistic approach to clearing...
...cause might be junk food and quick lunches, eaten hastily. Independent physicians who treat many overweight patients are inclined to put at least as much if not more blame on prolonged TV watching, especially for men who spend many weekend hours entranced by football, enhanced with a six-pack of beer at their elbows...
More Harvard theatrics came in the two mile run, where harriers Reed Eichner, Ed Sheehan, and Marc Meyer ran out in front of the pack early and never looked back after them, cruising to an easy one-two-three victory...
...stay in someone's house after he tells you to leave. Besides, we are afraid of him. So help me, we decide to spend the night in the suite above his garage. We tell ourselves that we wish to avoid awakening him in the morning by stumbling into the pack of dogs, but all we really want is to get out without seeing him again. We sneak back up the stairs to collect our belongings for transfer out to the garage. We pick our way past the dogs sleeping on the floors, under the tables around the chairs...
...roommate spent Thanksgiving in a leotard. The problem wasn't that she hadn't done her laundry in weeks (bringing it as a present to her mother at home) and the leotard was all she had left to wear. And it wasn't that she had packed so many books in her suitcase that there was no room left to pack any clothes, nor because the people she spent the holiday with were also in leotards, or some variation thereof, and she wanted to stay in style...