Word: pecks
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...Sharper Image catalog offers three different sizes of bat houses built of red cedar. The company claims each bat will consume up to 600 mosquitoes an hour; the biggest bat house will accommodate 100 bats. "You might not believe it," says Sharper Image's director of marketing Brian Peck, "but we sell a significant number of these...
...This phenomenon has increased tremendously over the last two years at both the high school and elementary level," says Robert Peck, a lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union. "A lot of new legislators, not only at the Congressional but at the state and local levels, including school boards, fear being swept out of office by those who are loud advocates of book banning. And it's a much more sophisticated effort than we saw ten years...
Quite obviously, since the groups leading the charge are well-funded and chillingly well-organized. Not to mention the fact that they have support from some of the most prominent members of congress, including Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich. And as Peck notes, many school district boards have become dominated by vigilantes such as Bartram, who joined the baord precisely because she was so inflamed by the literature read in area high schools...
...suggestion is to write in somebody's name. Ross Perot. Gregory Peck. Teddy Roosevelt. Anyone but these...
...every serious injury prevented by wearing a seat belt, it saves people $35,000 in health care costs," Peck says. "Also, last year in Massachusetts, nine out of every 10 people killed in car crashes were unbuckled...