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Word: packs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desire. Not long after taking up the habit, smokers become tolerant of nicotine's effects; as with heroin and cocaine, dependence quickly follows. Tobacco only seems safer because it is not immediately dangerous. Nicotine is not likely, for example, to fatally overstimulate a healthy heart, cause disorienting hallucinations or pack anywhere near the same euphoric punch as many other drugs. "People die with crack immediately," explains Alexander Glassman, a psychopharmacologist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in Manhattan. "With cigarettes the problems occur 20 years down the line. Nobody lights up their first cigarette and dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Why It's So Hard to Quit Smoking | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...which is open until 11 p.m. every night except Sunday, sells three-packs of Trojans for $1.99 and boxes of three dozen for $9.66. The store also offers a pack of three Fourex lambskin condoms...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Condom Machines Installed in Houses | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...Friday nights, and home-video rentals are booming. Some consumers are even finding bargains as businesses compete for scarce dollars by offering bonuses. One fast-food chain offers a double-size barrel of fried chicken for the price of a single, served up in what it calls the "crisis pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short On Cash, Long on Coping | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...take it and pack it all in his regulation-sized duffle bag. A duffle bag marked up with Syracuse destination stickers and the NCAA Quarterfinals...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: This Navy Goalie Takes it and Takes it | 5/20/1988 | See Source »

...then freshman Mickey Cavuoti, still limping from a hard check thrown at him in the third quarter, flicked in a long-range shot which somehow beat the Big Green's dense-pack formation...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Harvard Laxmen Manage to Escape Dartmouth Rally, 6-5 | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

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