Word: fatter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 3,900 city workers were finally back at work - and, though they had gone on strike for an extra $5.5 million, they had not won a penny. It was the most dramatic setback to date for the nation's powerful municipal unions, which have been demanding ever fatter wage boosts and thus helping to drive U.S. cities to the edge of bankruptcy. It was the citizenry that finally rebelled against the well-paid rank and file (street sweepers are currently making as much...
...held up fairly well. Now, with sales rebounding, the margins translate into zooming total profits. In addition, output per man-hour in nonfarm industries is rising nearly as fast as labor costs. That may change as more workers are hired and wages rise, but for the moment it means fatter profits. Most important, consumers are now buying the autos, appliances, clothes and other products they passed by during the recession...
Anorexics have a distorted sense of their own body size, seeing themselves as much fatter than they actually are, and they have extreme goals for the size they consider ideal. They are obsessed with nutrition and food. They love to prepare meals, watch others eat, and work on nutrition projects for school. They go on eating binges occasionally, but will secretly induce vomiting afterwards. "One sub-group," Dr. George Tully, an endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, says, "will eat next to nothing for a long time, then gorge a jar of mayonnaise or pickle juice--very unappetizing-sounding orgies...
...whole team played well," Barnaby said yesterday. "We did as well as could've been expected. But watching mighty Princeton win, we just chuckled, because we beat them. The better Princeton did, the better we looked, and the fatter we felt...
...Last week, at a Boston convention of Teamsters representing warehousemen, Fitzsimmons moved through crowds of overfed men in white shoes who sported FITZ IN '76 buttons. Whatever the result of the election, or the Hoffa case, the outlook for the Teamsters seems to be more members, fatter contracts, richer pension funds -and more corruption...