Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...building just to store the relics--everything from paintings, sculptures, furniture and jewelry to clocks, ceramics and borderline junk. At the same time that most of this largesse was pouring in, the museum's annual endowment for strategic art purchases was a miserly $40,000. It was famine amid fat. And so museum director Lewis Sharp came to a decision not just to cut the fat but to sell it. Says he: "If we display one or two Chippendale chairs, why do we need to keep...
...sheepish student moved up in the line and adjusted his baseball hat before presenting his copy of Playboy's October issue to Kelli M. Keller '97. She opened it to her picture, and with a fat felt-tipped pen scrawled. "To Wilson, with love," across the shiny page...
...reduce the quality and/or quantity of care that Medicare delivers. And the third is to deliver the same services more efficiently. Naturally, everyone prefers the third option. But no serious person believes that efficiency alone can produce the necessary savings. And even efficiency is not a free lunch. The fat in the current health-care financing system, both public and private, helps to support teaching hospitals, medical research and health care for people without insurance. Squeezing out the fat means squeezing out these indirect subsidies. It also will involve disconcerting changes for Medicare beneficiaries...
...July 1 deadline passed without an agreement on the West Bank, giving Hamas the opportunity to say that bargaining with Israel is futile. (Negotiators are now hoping that they will be able to conclude the talks in September.) Second, Hamas leaders had expected that during the cease-fire, Ara fat's forces would stop harassing them, but this was not the case. And last, despite the relative quiet, Israel continued to clamp tight restrictions on Palestinian day laborers, ignoring objections from the Authority. That took some of the onus for economic hardship off Hamas. "The Palestinian masses realize now that...
Hundreds of web- and E-zines have sprung up in recent months, covering everything from big- city nightlife (Total New York) to punk rock (Intrrr Nrrrd). FaT GiRL caters to lesbians whose girth is apolitical as well as an aesthetic choice. Snuff It purports to be a "Church of Euthanasia" publication. Its motto: "Save the Earth; Kill Yourself...