Word: packs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first mobile phones that came out were fine -- as long as you had a pack mule to carry them. They were a long way from a James Bond-style phone that would be small enough to fit under a pillow or in a vest pocket. Now Motorola has made a giant step toward a truly mobile phone. The company last week introduced its Micro TAC Personal Telephone, which is about the size of a checkbook. It is 13.5 in. long and weighs just 12.3 oz. The phone comes in two models that carry price tags...
...York the instinct to "Garland" the monstrous -- to extenuate brutality and make a victim of the victimizer -- is more attenuated than in the Ivy League. The New York tabloids, the moral voice of the community, are full-throated in their vilification of the monstrous "wolf pack." It is their social betters, those from the helping professions, who have lost their moral compass. It is they who would Garland this attack if they could...
...weeks ago, the Undergraduate Council seemed ready to pack it in for the year...
...million in Massachusetts, Dukakis has proposed tobacco- and alcohol-tax increases as well as a phased 10 cents rise in the gasoline tax, to 21 cents. New York's Cuomo last week reached agreement with legislators on $1 billion in extra revenue, raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 21 cents to 33 cents and on an average bottle of liquor from 81 cents to $1.05, and imposing a host of license and fee increases. Even the cost of dying will triple: a death certificate goes from $5 to $15. Connecticut's Democratic Governor William O'Neill...
Illinois' Thompson, a Republican, is considering a boost from 20 cents to 35 cents per cigarette pack that would net $170 million. California's voters last November approved raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 10 cents to 35 cents, which should bring in $300 million this year. Texas legislators are pondering a possible 7 cents increase, to 33 cents, in the same tax. Louisiana may raise the gasoline tax from 16 cents to 20 cents...