Word: fatted
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...ourselves. If every trade barrier on earth magically disappeared, the U.S. deficit would probably decline no more than 20%. The primary responsibility for the trade deficit rests both with a profligate Government whose tax and spending policies have encouraged overconsumption and with much of U.S. industry, which grew fat and complacent during its halcyon days in the 1950s and 1960s...
Doesn't Boston know that the easiest way to jinx the Sox is to say the race is over before it's really over? The Fat Lady hasn't started singing...
Presidential rivals George Bush and Michael Dukakis plunged into preparations yesterday for their first debate, pouring over fat briefing books and getting tips from media and political advisers. Dukakis took out time to propose a "Healthy Start" program guaranteeing basic medical care for poor women and children...
Shortly before the publication of his novel The Counterlife (1987), Philip Roth remarked, "If I ever wrote an autobiography, I'd call it The Counterbook." Fat chance, or so it seemed at the time. For nearly 30 years, Roth had been hearing accusations that he was merely a closet biographer, that his heroes, whether named David Kepesh, Peter Tarnopol, Alexander Portnoy or Nathan Zuckerman, were simply transparent disguises for their self-obsessed creator. Finding that denials did nothing to stem such charges, Roth responded by heaping coals on controversy. Did some readers accuse him of anti-Semitism? Very well. Roth...
When 13-time World-Record Holder John Thomas of the U.S. became the first to top 7 ft. indoors in 1959, there were no fat fees or endorsements with shoe companies. Recalls Thomas: "My coach slipped me an extra $10 that night for hamburgers, and I was king of 44th Street. Times change." Barriers fall...