Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ferreira, Nikhoul, and a group of Cambridge youths who saw Pasqualino all described him as short and fat with thinning brown hair, attired in a business suit...
Rhetoric about dioxin may push the same kind of emotional buttons. The chemical becomes relatively concentrated in fat-rich foods -- including human breast milk. Scientists estimate that a substantial fraction of an individual's lifetime burden of dioxin -- as much as 12% -- is accumulated during the first year of life. Nonetheless, the benefits of breast-feeding infants, the EPA and most everyone else would agree, far outweigh the hazards...
Meanwhile, the fat-cat dollar was gallivanting about the bond and stock markets, having an enriching experience. This the average bankroll couldn't do: bonds came in large denominations; bond funds didn't exist. Stocks bought in small quantities were called odd lots, like they were some kind of defective merchandise. The odd-lotters were mystified by stocks, and with good reason: the brokerage houses informed their big clients about every important development, but the small clients were the last to know...
HEALTH: Could Too Little Fat Be Dangerous...
...real underground has taken the very un-Postmodern step of depending on paper and the Postal Service: this is the low-tech, unwired world of photocopied "fanzines" (from fan magazines), the vanity projects of a new generation of publishers who are making fat, unglossy magazines radical again. Many of these "zines," as they are more generally called, are produced with desktop computers, but that is as sophisticated as they get. The majority make a point of their crude appearance and unhurried voyage to the reader; most are collated by hand, distributed by the mailman and cost...