Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Small Beds, Thin Walls, Fat Consequences
McDougal rose at that point, as did Clinton, and McDougal gently steered him out of the office. Susan's brother Bill Henley was standing nearby. With the Governor safely out of earshot, McDougal turned to Henley. "I don't mind the fat little son of a bitch coming by and taking up my time. I just wish he wouldn't ruin my chair...
Bill and Hillary's move to the Governor's mansion in January 1979 did little to ease these anxieties. He confided in Susan McDougal that he loved being Governor: "This is fun. Women are throwing themselves at me. All the while I was growing up, I was the fat boy in the Big Boy jeans." At an inauguration party, Susan had seen Bill Clinton disappear from the party with a tall blond woman in tow. Hillary was putting on a brave face, but the incident was stirring up a buzz, and Susan could tell she was upset. She went over...
Nationally, the battle may be decided at the dinner table. Health-conscious Americans are eating more of "the other white meat." Thanks in part to marketing campaigns that stress the low fat content of pork, consumption in the U.S. has edged up, from 49 lbs. per capita to 53 lbs. during the past nine years, even as beef consumption has fallen, from 79 lbs. per capita to 68 lbs. (Americans eat poultry, the current king of the table, at the per-capita rate of 73 lbs. a year.) The lofty goal of the National Pork Producers Council is to overtake...
...Governor Lawton Chiles vetoed the legislature's repeal of the legislation, the lawmakers are expected to override that veto next month. Many have been swayed by lobbyists' arguments that if the state can sue the tobacco industry no one is safe, and the liquor industry and manufacturers of high-fat foods had better start worrying. "There is, after all, such a thing as equal protection," notes Donahue, "even for the tobacco industry." But Chiles, vehemently anti-tobacco, has proclaimed his determination to make hash of his political enemies and refile the suit if necessary. "The Governor has made it very...