Word: stack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fellowship applications, and you consider yourself to be as worthy of the fellowship as anyone else, then isn't lying yourself the truly honest thing to do? Under these conditions, wouldn't telling the truth actually give the fellowship committee an inaccurate, and therefore dishonest, perception of how you stack up against the other candidates...
...industry dominated by the familiar spinning logos belonging to Columbia, MCA and Atlantic, SBK Records is the new platter on the stack. Since its first release last summer, SBK has seen 12 singles reach the pop charts. With only 14 albums so far, the company has already grossed $56 million worldwide. The platinum debut album by Wilson Phillips, a group formed by two daughters of Beach Boy Brian Wilson and one daughter of Mamas and the Papas singers John and Michelle Phillips, has zoomed to No. 2 on this week's Billboard chart. Another platinum seller is Technotronic's Pump...
...social workers and paramedics, employed by roughly 5,700 emergency departments nationwide. Last year they treated 90 million patients for everything from hangnails to heart attacks. In the busiest hospitals, emergency-room personnel minister to an average of 200 patients in a single, brutal twelve-hour shift, while stretchers stack up in the waiting rooms, hallways and even closets. Staffers eat large meals before going on duty, since there will be no breaks once they start. They treat wounds they hoped never to see outside a war zone: it is to Los Angeles, which had more automatic-weapons victims than...
Clayton Williams, the Republican nominee for Texas Governor accused of sexism, and Gus Savage, the Chicago Democratic Congressman accused of anti-Semitism (see NATION), are battling for the title of most outrageous politician. How do they stack...
Harvard students all grab more cups than we need at meals. I used to automatically remove four cups from the stack only to use two or three. I never considered that I could get only one cup and make the small effort to get up and refill it later...