Word: fatted
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None of them is an acceptable choice. Carter has reneged on almost every important campaign promise he made the last time around, which should come as no surprise since he made contradictory promises, depending on his audience. Remember slashing the fat out of the defense budget? Remember overhauling a tax system that was a disgrace to the human race? Remember full employment? Remember Paul Warnke, ditched after negotiating SALT II to pacify the Neanderthals, and Andy Young, shot down by the Israeli lobby after talking to people of the Palestinian persuasion? Forget Jimmy Carter...
Dressed in somber gray suits and minus 25 Ibs. (thanks to a low-fat diet), he stressed pet schemes: overhaul the fiscal and monetary system, rebuild the cities, renew the space program, balance the federal budget, protect the environment, phase out nuclear energy. Says Brown: "The Democratic Party is headed for defeat in November unless it comes up with the answers for the decline in our economy, the decline of our technology...
...many others (most notably Yukio Mishima and Yasunari Kawabata) have committed suicide. The irony, however, is that for the leading literary figure in Japan, Abe's writing has a remarkably Western flavor. Except for place names and a few distinctly oriental metaphors ("his thoughts shrank like a piece of fat meat plunged into boiling water"), Secret Rendezvous. Abe's sixth and most recent book could pass, like his others, for a Western novel...
...Long the fat matron of Montreal's once powerful English-speaking minority, the Star consistently outsold its morning rival, the Gazette (circ. 168,000), which was founded in 1778 and is owned by the Southam chain (the Ottawa Citizen and 13 other Canadian dailies). But over the past two decades, Toronto has gradually displaced Montreal as the nation's leading city. English-speaking Montrealers began moving out in even larger numbers after René Lévesque's secession-minded Parti Québecois won control of Quebec in 1976. For a while, the Star weathered that...
Barnaby doesn't anticipate any problems. "I always said 'Give me an athlete, and I'll teach him the game.' But give me a fat slob...