Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the halcyon days of junior high, though, teen idols have deteriorated from wholesome sitcom characters and 80s excess into the over hyped likes of the Spice Girls, Mariah Carey, Hanson, Leonardo DiCaprio and the Backstreet Boys. Strangely enough, the Spice Girl's teeny-bopper fans notice no implicit contradiction between one of their role models proclaiming the mantra "Girl Powah" and then posing nude for Playboy...
...went up at a faster pace in the 1989-92 period than in the post-Intel era. Only two income groups increased faster in the later years: those at the bottom, with earnings of less than $30,000; and those at the top, with earnings in excess...
...Gray put on his best suit to meet the author, whom he found "extraordinarily gracious and extremely well dressed." Gray, who on average reads three books a week, says Wolfe's latest novel, A Man in Full, offers "a deep look at society without skimping on pizazz and wretched excess." JOEL STEIN, who wrote this week's article on the Yankees, never played Little League. "I was afraid of the other kids," he admits. He joined the soccer team only because his parents insisted that he play a sport--and bowling wasn't offered at his elementary school. "I didn...
...anorexia nervosa, broadly defined as the refusal to eat enough to maintain even a minimal body weight. Not so clear is how many more suffer from bulimia, in which they binge on food, eating perhaps two or three days' worth of meals in 30 minutes, then purge the excess by taking laxatives or inducing vomiting. Nor does age necessarily protect you. Anorexia has been diagnosed in girls as young as eight. Most deaths from the condition occur in women over...
Maybe it will. Scott Walters, the SHOPA Foundation's executive director, plans "a national web of resource centers," opening at the rate of two, three or four a year, serving well in excess of 100 communities. Each center benefits from history. Chicago's started as a bulk-delivery warehouse. Then SHOPA retailers toured Crayons to Computers in Cincinnati and liked the mock-retail approach. As a result, Los Angeles opened as a "free store," Chicago was converted to one, and Crayons to Computers got on SHOPA's gift list...