Word: packs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever want to know what it's like to play in the forward pack of a rugby team, ask Jane Liles...
...definitely a lot different," Liles said. "I got a little disoriented not knowing where the ball was. You've got your head in a pack of people. I'm used to running around freely...
Liles, along with Jenny LeBaron, moved up from the "B"-side because of injuries to several regulars. In their regular positions, Liles and LeBaron were expected to run the ball and score trys. Members of the forward pack, in comparison, are the equivalent of warriors in the trench...
...many others around the world who saw the rescue on TV last week. For eight days scientists and local oil-company personnel had acted as Pied Pipers, coaxing the exhausted leviathans toward an open lead in the ice pack, while Eskimos, many of them whalers, sawed breathing holes in the 6-in.-thick ice. The effort had its setbacks. The third member of the original trio vanished under the ice and was presumed dead. It took two days to lure Putu and Siku around a shoal. And a "hoverbarge" being towed from Prudhoe Bay bogged down and got stuck...
...tobacco industry has similar worries: that either party might resort to raising the national cigarette tax, which has already gone up from 8 cents a pack to 16 cents in the past five years. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco channeled $100,000 to the Republican Party, but that was offset when a Reynolds tobacco heir, Smith Bagley, donated $100,000 to the Democrats. "Many big corporations give both parties $100,000," says a Republican fund raiser...