Word: fat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debt might amount to between $300 million and $500 million. Moreover, New York must lower taxes on industry that now discourage private investment-a phased program just getting under way. That effort should eventually pay dividends, but in the short run it cuts revenues. Although there is still fat in such areas as health care, the city cannot afford to reduce any further services like fire and police protection; to do so would encourage more middle-class citizens to leave and discourage the desired influx of private capital. To add to Koch's troubles, this spring the city must...
...York's political crowd, she stands out like Diane Keaton at a fat farm. Frank, enthusiastic and relentlessly energetic, she promised to bring new clout to the post of city council president...
After turning out several fat but never fatuous biographies of famous Britons (Mary Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell) Woman-About-England Lady Antonia Fraser has focused on the topic dearest to her heart: love. The former wife of Conservative M.P. Hugh Fraser-and the current companion of Playwright Harold Pinter-says she loves nothing more than to give and receive billets-doux. To kindle ardor in the souls of her readers, Antonia, 44, has compiled Love Letters (Knopf; $8.95), a tender anthology of 135 amorous notes dashed off through the centuries by lovers of distinction. Sample sweet nothings...
...wounds are the result of an accident with a safety pin, used when fastening her scarf," remarks the good doctor Seward, our man of science.) Soon to arrive on the scene are Jonathan Hacker, Lucy's fiance (tall, freckled, devoted) and Dr. Van Helsing, a colleague of Seward (fat, Dutch, intellectual...
...Vegas and Toots Shors' Bar haven't placed their bets against Ali. They have heard that Ali is fat, and slow, and that a washed-up heavyweight named Jimmy Ellis floored him twice in sparring sessions...