Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elusive. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. David Blankenhorn of the University of Southern California reported that patients who were treated with a combination of the anticholesterol drug colestipol and the vitamin niacin showed a marked improvement over those who had maintained a low-fat diet alone...
...Roosevelt. Nearly all the characters extol his predecessor. Hay tells McKinley, "You may be tired, sir, but you've accomplished a great deal more than any President since Mr. Lincoln, and even he didn't acquire an empire for us, which you have done." Roosevelt, by contrast, is the "fat little President," a bellicose figure of fun with a falsetto voice, a habit of clicking his "tombstone teeth" and laughing like a "frenzied watchdog." These denigrations largely fall flat. In Burr, Vidal turned a villain into a hero, suggesting that another truth could be found on the dark side...
...ruling came in the case of Mob Boss Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno, head of the Genovese crime family, and Vincent Cafaro, a reputed captain in the same Mafia clan, who were charged last year with racketeering. A federal appeals court in New York City ruled that to deny them bail would violate constitutional guarantees of due process...
Though P&G apparently has a large lead in the race to market a fat substitute in the U.S., scientists for several rival companies are working on similar substances. Among the possible competitors: the Frito-Lay division of PepsiCo (maker of Lay's potato chips and Fritos corn chips), CPC International (Mazola corn oil and Hellmann's mayonnaise) and the Lever Brothers subsidiary of Unilever (Imperial margarine and Mrs. Butterworth's syrup and pancake mixes...
...allure of SPE, though, makes the mind boggle -- and the mouth water. Industry watchers suggest that someday supermarkets might stock extra-low- calorie cookies, diet doughnuts and even fat-free ice cream. Says P&G Spokesman Donald Tassone: "We have done a lot of testing on different & foods." If research produces food that seems sinful but is palatable to waistline watchers, then P&G, and any other companies that follow its lead, should have no trouble fattening their bottom lines...