Word: packs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goods powerhouse, Philip Morris is larger than Kellogg ($7 billion) and General Mills ($8.3 billion) combined. Cereal accounts for a mere 2.2% of sales and about 2.1% of operating profits, so the company can easily offset any losses elsewhere. For instance, it jacked up its cigarette prices 4' a pack earlier this month, a move expected to recapture some of the revenue losses from Post cereals. Just last week Philip Morris said its first-quarter profit rose 14.8%, to $1.6 billion, on revenues of $17.5 billion...
...comes back to earth. "The doctors don't like to hear me say that. But this is safe. It's just like air." Of course, laughing gas isn't the only remedy at his disposal. There are injections of Dilaudid, doses of hallucinogens, various vials of white powder, a pack of Benson & Hedges and a daily highball. "I'm an Irishman," he declares. "I can handle my liquor! Whaddaya...
Last week it happened again. The problem centered once more on a shipment of macaques sent by the same Philippine supplier. One monkey from the shipment was discovered last month with a raging fever and bloody diarrhea; three days later it was dead. The rest of the pack was quarantined, but the disease had already spread. After a second monkey turned up sick last week, authorities decided to destroy the monkeys housed in the same hut--49 animals...
Windows 95 users will find a defragmentation program in the System Tools folder. Better, yet, the Microsoft Plus! pack contains System Agent, which can automatically tune up your hard disk at a scheduled interval...
...Undergraduate Council really irritates me. If I see, hear or smell Rudd Coffey in my dining hall one more time, I think I will be sick. The Council's brat pack fights are the best. This week's hair gripping theme: Rudd Coffey scurries through the campus disguised as a maintenance man ripping off Rob Hyman's posters and erasing his juicy campaign slogans from the blackboards of lecture halls. My goodness! Coffey really should be shot, then...