Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fringe benefits of corporate employment--health insurance, a dental plan and maybe a subsidized gym-- simply aren't enough to make the grind worthwhile. So in a world where specialized skills and hands-on experience are still at a premium, corporations are adapting at the fringes. Rather than a fat expense account and a company car, firms are offering things like flexible work plans (job sharing and part-time employment) or on-site day-care programs, parenting classes, referrals to elder care for aging parents, and tuition money for college-bound kids. The alternative, they know, is that they...
...Fat chance. You can't get any of that, of course. But if you live almost anywhere in America, all around you are taxpayers getting deals like this. These taxpayers are called corporations, and their deals are usually trumpeted as "economic development" or "public-private partnerships." But a better name is corporate welfare. It's a game in which governments large and small subsidize corporations large and small, usually at the expense of another state or town and almost always at the expense of individual and other corporate taxpayers...
...Fat chance of that. Right now, it?s still all Glenn, all the time down in Houston. More than a thousand residents packed an airport hangar to cheer the two-time astronaut?s return Saturday; on Wednesday, the city will throw a parade in his honor. And you?d be hard-pressed to find a reporter with space stations on his mind at the Discovery press conference. How did Senator Glenn feel? "Ninety-five or 98 percent back to normal," he said. Does he have a message for the elder generation? "Don?t sit on a couch someplace, that...
...leading men has given mainstream American literature a respectable manliness. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral, a high school golden-boy grows up to a life made miserable by Vietnam politics and 1970s economics, and in the National Book Award-winning Sabbath's Theater, Roth portrays the fat, megalo-maniacally horny Mickey Sabbath as a suicidal Statue of Liberty character. In what William Pritchard described as "one of the greatest sequences in American fiction," Sabbath goes down to the beach near his childhood home, wrapped in an American Flag, and with the accumulated force of 400 pages, soliloquies...
...know that it's not over till the fat lady sings, and this book wouldn't be complete without the chapter titled "Clean Plate Club." Hoelterhoff throws political correctness to the wind in her descriptions of the "Three Tonners": Debora Voigt, Sharon Sweet and Jane Eaglen. In her merciless critique, she explains the difficulties of having hugely overweight leads playing believable romantic roles. In one version of La Boheme, with Jane Eaglan as Mimi, the Met had to build a bed that sunk with her weight to help some of the extra bulk. Hoelterhoff fills the chapter out with...