Word: stack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although much has been made of the President's failing approval ratings, the tempest has taken place in a vacum. How does Clinton stack up against the possible alternatives...
...images are the worst in a decade. Hundreds of emaciated corpses line the sun-baked gravel roads. The bodies strewn in contorted positions attract only flies and other pests; workers in masks and gloves stack the dead as chunks of rotting chordwood in loose piles. Beyond the dead, upon the roads and grassy fields are the living. Of course they can hardly be called such as most of them appear to be human skeletons shrouded in thin layers of skin and brightly colored clothing. Tragically these scenes are reminiscent of other scenes related by American GIS liberating the concentration camps...
...bankers say they have no choice but to cover the rising costs of services and to make up for anemically low interest rates. "We are the largest branch network in New York state and the largest ATM network," says John Stack, managing director of branch banks at Chemical. "We have a superb offering to customers, which costs money, and we are in a low-interest-rate environment in which deposits are worth less to banks. When you combine those things, we must raise fees...
...this was around the beginning of second semester last year, and the rag, Harvard's short-lived ultrafeminist journal, had just run a picture of a woman's vagina, with litcigarette inserted, propped up on a stack of books (such as Moby Dick). The picture was titled "The Educated Pussy" and had caused a small-to-medium-sized stir on campus, as well as some great Crimson editorial cartoons...
...beach, there was no standing around. We tried using the fold-up bikes we'd trained on for two years. But the rubble on the roads made the whole thing impractical. After about three miles, we were ordered to stack them up in a heap. We dug slit trenches the first night in a churchyard; Jerry was maybe 1,000 yds. away. When we tried to negotiate with a local farmer to buy some eggs, he was mystified by our Quebec French and finally asked in English, 'What do you want?' He had been a steward on the French liner...