Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really want to appeal to women, how about some discussion of the anorexia the baby gymnasts obviously suffer from--or the fact that the females are mostly teenagers while the male gymnasts are in their mid-20s? Resist overcovering women's beach volleyball, which is no better than the swimsuit competition at the Miss America pageant. And don't labor to make heroes of the nonheroic. Airbrushing swimmer Gary Hall Jr., the spoiled grandson of savings and loan cheat Charles Keating Jr., by not mentioning that he was a major goof-off, blowing up mailboxes and tearing up golf courses...
...tiny grain rations that barely sustain them. The new flooding seems certain to lead to starvation and other severe suffering. "It's difficult to expect them to work in the fields and repair the vast new flood damage with so little to eat," Hauser says. The United Nations appeal for food aid to compensate for last year's flooding drew little support, in part because western opponents of the Pyongyang regime argued that giving such help would merely prop up the communists, and would probably be funneled to the army instead of civilians. -->