Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stopped calling short people dwarfs. We've stopped calling disabled people handicapped. We've stopped calling lots of people lots of things we always called them. But the XXXLs of the world have a message for us. It's still O.K. to call them fat, as long as you don't make fun of them. "We're fat! We're here! Get over it!" was the cry at the recent Million Pound March here, a celebration notable for the fact that nobody actually marched anywhere...
Some of the 200 mostly female attendees, who ranged in weight from chubby to barely making it out of the bus, even sat through all the speeches and chants at Palisades Park in Santa Monica, Calif. Ella Lou Wann, whose daughter Marilyn, 31, wore a FAT!SO? T shirt and made the crowd-pleasing observation that "life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks," handed out 150 ginger cookies...
...while Harvard's negotiators hope to cutRadcliffe's institutional fat, Radclifferepresentatives continue to "think...
...your back and the sun on your face, a return to the vagaries of normal weather can feel downright depressing. And make no mistake, that's what we're experiencing right now in the stock market: a return to normality, not a "crash" or disaster. But after eight fat years, we've returned to a world where stocks go down as well as up, where our engagement in the global economy brings risks as well as rewards. We're leaving behind the fantasy world where stock prices bear little or no relation to earnings, especially for companies whose names...
What's the latest in bipedal transportation? How about relatively affordable ($500 or less) "comfort bikes" with cushy seats, fat tires and--get this--automatic gears. At the Interbike show in Las Vegas this week, Shimano will demonstrate its new Auto-D electronic-shifting system on bikes from Bianci, Schwinn, GT and others. The digital derailleur always starts off in the lowest gear and automatically shifts when a rider pedals faster or slower. It even has a parking-mode feature that locks the wheels until you enter a secret code to release them...