Word: stacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really wasn't difficult; the ballot box and a stack of unmarked ballots were left unattended in the crowded dining hall during lunch...
...Sometimes the Coop isn't out of books that students can't find," says Assistant Professor of Government Stephen Macedo. He says some of the students in his class, Government 10, "Introduction to Political Philosophy," could not find course books because space limitations had caused the Coop to stack them at the end of the aisles...
...company founders did more than stack three units on top of one another and paint them the same color, however. Their machine, which stands under four feet tall, was invented to use no more power than a compact refrigerator...
...substantial areas in the state where the soil is too fragile to bear the ravages of machinery. So the brunt of cost consciousness falls on the cutters, who invariably take their lumps. They are routinely cheated of some time spent in the fields. They are expected to cut and stack one ton of cane an hour. Those who fall behind are "checked out," deprived of any pay they may have earned that day and sent back to their barracks, which in many cases resemble prison camps. As the ultimate penalty, laggards or troublemakers can always be deported...
Revelations that Rose would gamble on any game, in any sport, at any time -- and seven volumes of evidence, including a stack of betting slips in his handwriting -- did not seem to shame him. Little ever has. Not a 1979 paternity suit that he did not contest, the messy unraveling of his marriage in 1978 (which did not interfere with his 44-game hitting streak), or striking an umpire in the chest, for which he received a 30-day suspension in 1988. Criticism in the press about the friends in thick gold chains and diamond pinky rings who placed wagers...