Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Secretary of Education William Bennett misbehaved like a classroom bully. He brashly backhanded many university students as beach bums who loafed on Government loans, blasted what he called the "failed path" of bilingual education, charged that rising college tuitions and cafeteria-style curriculums were a rip-off and assailed fat in congressional education budgets. Except for hearty support from President Reagan, whom Bennett strove mightily to please, most reaction from lawmakers and educators ranged from bemusement to cold rage. California Democrat Augustus Hawkins, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, summed up the early opinion: "I would give...
...rest of the health-care industry has suddenly gone for the hard sell. To fill a growing number of empty beds and to stand out amid increased competition, hospitals and clinics have started embracing modern marketing techniques. Result: a wave of come-ons for everything from cancer treatment to fat removal...
...parties. "You should have had a big bowl of vegetable soup before leaving your house," said Lee. Gelfand objected, "I had a tight dress on, and soup puffs out my tummy." Still, she has lost ten pounds and is enthusiastic about Lee's method; "She tells me to imagine fat cells sticking their tongues out at me when I eat the wrong thing. It works...
Kickbacks and payoffs and carp. They are all part of the Christmas tradition in Czechoslovakia, where the moon-mouthed fish is the centerpiece of holiday feasts. The challenge is to get a fat and tasty one, and that is where the corruption comes in. In Prague hundreds of fish vendors flock to giant carp tanks on the city's outskirts. They bribe the staff to give them big carp instead of small, the truckers to deliver the fish early instead of late and officials to award them prime locations on city streets. By the time the fish are ready...
...protest at Amherst. Did our sign linking "Social Democracy from Harvard to London Financed by the CIA" upset the Big Liars in The Crimson basement to the point of shredding the wrong stack of photos? More likely it was a CIA-style "disinformation" on behalf of Harvard's fat bosses--and it stinks! William D. Hughes...