Word: stack
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Stairs are almost always involved, and with a stack of books clenched in place under her chin, the mission commences. A fair number of machines are occasionally out of paper or ink or both, or in use by a fellow student who appears to be copying most of the books in the library. But if, after climbing (if she's lucky) two flights of stairs a free and working copy machine is located, she can move...
...major goal of many patients' groups is to compile report cards showing how HMOs stack up against one another. The patients are getting some help from employers such as the 33 giants that have formed the San Francisco-based Pacific Business Group on Health. P.B.G.H. has set up an online facility, on which the nearly 3 million employees of its member companies can swap stories about how well or how badly they have been treated by managed-care plans...
...would take to get the general out of semiretirement, off the phone (he is a well-known phone and fax abuser) and away from the mail (he answers every letter). Even his wife Alma was thinking he ought to get out of the basement more. He had a stack of offers from corporate boards, foundations and academia that if laid end to end would circle the Pentagon and make the Republican who actually did run weep. Then Ray Chambers, a philanthropist who has devoted the past decade to salvaging kids in Newark, New Jersey, asked Powell to look...
...latest indirect-cost proposal to the Department of Health and Human Services, which the government uses to determine how much money Penn can recoup from each federal grant to cover the overall cost of operating the university and which TIME acquired under the Freedom of Information Act. In a stack of paper as thick as a large-type Bible, Penn laid itself bare, disclosing everything from the $208,795 allocated to cover the cost of operating the university president's $1.4 million, 5,500-sq.-ft. house to the volume of water and sewage that flows through College Hall, university...
...Heels have a weakness, it is probably on the blocks. Without a dominating post-player, UNC could struggle if it faces a team with a huge front line. The Tar Heels stack up only 5-11, 6-0, 6-4 across the front...