Word: anorexia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anorexia Nervosa...
...Anorexia is the other common clinical eating disorder, though it is not so prevalent among college-aged students as bulimia. While bulimic behavior commonly begins in the late teens or twenties, anorexia usually sets in earlier, at ages...
...tendencies that will have to be curbed for these happy possibilities to be reached. At some companies, at least, downsizing & shows signs of turning into a fixation, an almost pathological urge to cut whatever the circumstances. While some cost-conscious companies like Compaq have avoided this so-called corporate anorexia and increased hiring after getting their costs down and their market share up, others are acting more like American Express. It is about to start another round of staff cuts, despite having turned a loss into a profit. Why? "Because we're doing so well," chairman Harvey Golub told...
Various eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia, plague one-fifth of college women nationwide, Wilson said...
...masked the fact that the book does expose some embarrassing exaggerations in feminist literature, along with much p.c. silliness on the part of Sommers' academic feminist colleagues. Most strikingly, it debunks author Naomi Wolf's assertion that 150,000 American women die each year in a "holocaust" of anorexia; the number is closer to 100. Similarly, Sommers claims that feminists exaggerate the extent of rape, wife battering and discrimination against girls in the classroom. She criticizes a much publicized study finding that girls' self-esteem plunges at puberty. For one thing, the same study finds that black girls have much...