Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Take that Geraldine A. Ferraro spot for Diet Pepsi. It opens with Geraldine having a poignant heart-to-heart with her daughter, the American heroine--mom, wife and would-be vice president--talking with her attractive daughter about life and success. But no, she never mentions Diet Pepsi. In fact, you never realize it's Diet Pepsi. In fact, you never realize it's Diet Pepsi they're hawking until the announcer comes...
...related to Reagan's diverticulitis, a disorder common to older people that causes pouches to develop in the intestinal walls. This may also be responsible for the blood found in two stool samples. On the advice of his doctors, the President has gone on a high-fiber diet before further tests. Because red meat can cause a positive test for blood in the stool, Reagan will temporarily be eating fewer of the rare steaks he enjoys now and then...
Those statistics may be cause for alarm among governing technocrats, but most Soviet citizens measure the reality of their country's inefficiency and mismanagement by a different yardstick, the daily diet of small and not-so- small bureaucratic horror stories. Some examples...
Unlike Mary Poppins, who was armed only with a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down, the new nannies are valued for their specialized knowledge. At North American, for example, students learn toilet-training procedures from a pediatric nurse, diet planning for acne-prone adolescents from a nutritionist and how to deal with family turmoil from a counselor. Says Nanny Plan Student Marcie Mansell, 24, a former cosmetics-company beauty adviser: "We are professionals trained to know things baby-sitters...
...certainly not cut the size of current benefits, but they might reduce future cost of living allowances (COLAs), which are payment increases linked to the inflation rate. One option, Feldstein suggested, would be to limit COLAs to the amount of inflation in excess of 3%. They would then be "diet COLAs," he quipped. If that strategy were adopted for Social Security and all other programs with COLAs, including federal employee pensions and veterans' benefits, it would save an estimated $50 billion...