Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Institute thus conceived, it is fat from clear that undergraduates should participate in its governance or direction Whereas such students may have useful ideas to contribute to the development of an undergraduate program in Afro-American Studies, their experience leaves them much less qualified to evaluate the needs of research and graduate training...
...More important to agricultural experts is the fact that the dam helped stave off droughts in the exceedingly dry years of 1972 and 1973. "We are forever saved," says William K. Shenouda, Under Secretary of State responsible for the dam, "from the cycle of seven lean years and seven fat years that Joseph encountered in biblical times." A team from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Michigan, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology has begun a $1 million, three-year study that will evaluate Aswan's impact, for better or worse...
This monotonous effect is nowhere more apparent than in the constant banter about sex. In the crime novels sex talk is crude but excited. Attitudes toward sex reveal much about motivations. In A City on a Hill there is more talk, less feeling. The talk is almost exotic--about fat Tijuana whores and Chinese baskets and a house in Brighton where you wash off with PhisoHex to stave off V.D. The sex that actually happens (we hear about it through more talk) is uniform, innocuous. No one is tender, no one is embarrassed to talk about how wet somebody...
...deepening bitterness is complemented by a growing hope. To the traditional image of Somoza as a fat, lying thief a new demension has been added--that of a coward. The dictator is now mocked for living in an underground redoubt, surrounded by bodyguards, for being afraid to appear in public. One young woman claims that he is acutally dead and that the country is being directed by a mummy...
Even when the summer-job hunter is not competing with fulltime workers, landing a job will not be easy. Betsey Remage, OGCP health careers counselor, said that inflation and fewer Federal and foundation grants to hospitals and universities for scientific research means that "there is less and less fat for special programs" for students...