Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through her family. And after months working in California. she is eager to spend some down time "with myself" in New York City. "I can't wait for someone to honk at me and tell me to f--- off," she says, "to be just one out of a million." Fat chance...
Night after night, Nigerian gangsters trolled the bars and fleshpots of Naples for reckless young Yanks. The bait: a weekend excursion to Turkey, all expenses paid, and a fat wad of walking-around cash. The job: carrying a backpack stuffed with heroin on the return flight from Istanbul to Rome...
...think an explosion is coming anyway--the fat is in the fire. Very few agree with me, but I have a sense of doom about the whole thing. I believe that with the establishment of a Palestinian state, tactical cooperation between the P.L.O. and Hamas--their fight-and-talk strategy, similar to what the Vietnamese did with the U.S.--will break down, and you'll have a civil war between the Palestinians and Hamas, a Lebanonization of Palestine. The Syrians would use this kind of unrest and violence as an excuse to move in, as they did in Lebanon...
Enrico launched a major overhaul, including more than 1,000 layoffs, that slashed half a billion dollars from operating expenses. He used the savings to improve existing products, lower prices and aggressively roll out new items. Recently the company has been adding low-fat varieties that are hits. Aiding that strategy has been a 13,000-strong delivery force armed with hand-held computers that can track buying trends by the day and act accordingly...
...remember the day the Harvard acceptance letter came. My dad stood on the porch, nervously holding a very thin envelope (we were both too scared to realize early acceptances wouldn't come in fat envelopes...