Word: packs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doing its first rehiring in five years. But Sandy Koicuba, 44, does not feel she is making any comeback -- even though she is one of those rehired. In late 1992 she was laid off as a materials specialist at the York, Pennsylvania, manufacturing plant; she has been recalled to pack materials in a warehouse across the street. Her wage: $9.10 an hour, vs. $17 an hour in her old job -- and she gets only one fringe benefit, inadequate major medical insurance. "I work 60 hours a week, and I still can't make it," she says. "I gross...
...Indians' opening-day game. But his pitch, high and over the plate, was more than the usual springtime rite. The President helped kick off the baseball season in Jacobs Field, a sleek, brand-new, $169 million stadium, a large chunk of which was financed by a 4.5 cents-a-pack local tax on cigarettes. Yet no one, no matter where they are sitting, is permitted to smoke in the open-air stands...
...more people each day -- including bars, restaurants and almost every structure that isn't someone's home -- will have to become smoke-free zones or face fines of up to $5,000 a day. Another House subcommittee has proposed raising the cigarette tax a whopping $1.25 a pack, largely to help finance health-care reform. Congress last month passed, and President Clinton signed, a bill that outlaws smoking in all public and some private schools. And last Friday U.S. Department of Defense restrictions went into effect that ban smoking in all military work spaces, ranging from military bases to tanks...
...will share smokers' illegal-alien status. Cigarette users must huddle in the ragtag solidarity of their serene, intense habit. Defiantly, they say, "We look so cool, don't we, waving our wicked wands in the air. Our voices have the knowing, late-night duskiness of alto-sax jazz. We pack more fun into life because we know, better than all those who stare darts our way, how short life is. We are nature's bravados, medicine's death-row aesthetes." As the health magazines remind us, absolutely everything can kill you. So smokers figure they may as well...
...loss puts the Crimson in the middle of the league pack with a 1-1 record. Currently, Brown is on top with an undefeated league mark, and Princeton is number two with one loss...