Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again and stagger off to rest. The spa stresses elegance. Fresh flowers are ( everywhere, and gourmet, though low-cal, meals are served on china. Clients, however, dine informally in sweats. Like the Golden Door, Cal-a-Vie tries to send guests off on the right foot by providing a picnic with appropriate menu for the trip home...
...plastic containers and bags are tossed into the oceans every day. Commercial fishermen are also major offenders. Estimates of the plastic fishing gear lost or discarded at sea every year range as high as 150,000 tons. Boaters and beachgoers add to the marine litter with six-pack yokes, picnic utensils, sandwich bags and Styrofoam cups. Cities and industries discharging waste directly into the water or dumping it at sea are also to blame. On some East Coast beaches near sewage outlets, so many plastic tampon inserters have washed ashore that residents refer to them as "beach whistles...
Coeducation at Harvard has had some effect on Harvard-Wellesley relations, according to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Although Wellesley women had traditionally attended the annual Harvard freshman picnic, Epps decided to stop inviting them...
...just struck me that [that the reason] we were inviting Wellesley students to the freshman picnic was to provide enough women for the men," Epps says...
...Many of these men have families, and they fear that they will be called into active combat. "When they give you a uniform and a pair of boots," says Walter Caracas, 27, a graphics designer in the government craft department, "you know it's not going to be a picnic...