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...about a little red sports car. Your son, the Nintendo addict, wants a new computer. You'd love some cash for your daughter's college education and to buy a tractor for yourself. And maybe, just maybe, you could quit your $32,000-a-year job as a pipe fitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Coming Close, So Close | 4/19/1993 | See Source »

...Ireland. Yet the performances also have the delicacy and nuance that comes from long consideration. They suggest all the tacit tolerance, the willful blindness, that makes family life possible, and also the tragic inevitability that even inside a household there will be competition, and some survivors will prove fitter than others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Potent Memories, Great Joys | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...hopes to blossom into a supermodel must meet certain minimum requirements. Elite's Pillard reels them off: she must be at least 5 ft. 9 in., bone thin, have full lips, high cheekbones, large eyes, long legs and a straight, not too prominent nose. Models today are taller and fitter than those of previous generations, with fuller lips and bigger breasts. "The models are still skinny," comments Susan Moncur, 41, a semiretired Paris model, "but with big tits -- real or false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing Beauty and The Bucks | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...officer, a position he had held since 1983. While he will remain chairman, Haggett turned over to president Duane Fitzgerald day-to-day responsibility for the company, whose work force of 10,400 makes it the largest employer in Maine. Haggett, the son of a Bath Iron Works pipe fitter, said he relinquished control because he had failed to set a strong moral example when he copied the sensitive Navy document...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive Suite: Unbecoming An Officer | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...have better skill players, and we were a much fitter team this time," Kingston noted. "We were holding our own in the line...

Author: By John B. Roberts, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Ruggers Squelch Dartmouth Drought | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

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