Word: packs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reported episodes have been more sinister. High on the best-seller lists this past summer stood Communion by Whitley Strieber, previously known mainly as a writer of fantasies (The Wolfen, Warday), who vehemently describes as a "true story" his chilling account of being spirited onto a spaceship by a pack of 3-ft.-high "visitors." When they proposed sticking a needle into his brain, he recalls, one of them casually asked him, "What can we do to help you stop screaming?" More scare stories came from Intruders by Budd Hopkins, a chronicle of 130 people who claim to have been...
More generally, though, it was hard to leave last night's debate impressed with the Democratic field. According to the latest polls, Dukakis and Simon are pulling ahead of the pack in Iowa and the Duke has an overwhelming lead in New Hampshire. The same polls also show Sen. Dole with higher favorable ratings among Democrats than any of the Dems already in the hunt...
Harvard defeated Yale in the Game, 14-10, to capture the Ivy crown in a season where it wasn't picked to lead the Ivy pack...
Twenty-six years later the young candidate again claims to be ready. At 46, Gephardt is a driven politician who has maneuvered from obscurity in Congress to the top rank of the 1988 Democratic pack. Serious and smiling, able and ambitious, he has long had his eye on the prize, rarely missing a chance to advance to the highest office in sight. He is, at his core, the student-body president who turned...
...poll of Democrats attending the annual Jefferson-Jackson day dinner, though the party had banned such entrance surveys. The gambit failed when police dispersed the polltakers. But a greater problem is that his candidacy just has not caught fire. Instead of getting the chance to break out of the pack in Iowa, Gephardt may doom his candidacy there...