Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like some mysterious female disorder. Republicans are fretting over that ancient Freudian riddle--What do women want?--while aiming programs at them called "A Seat at the Table" (haven't they noticed many women are sitting there already?), or designing cards with "Twelve Important Messages for Women" that can "fit in a man's pocket and a woman's purse," in the words of one G.O.P. operative. Democrats too have launched a guerrilla operation to snag women in this election. But mostly the Democrats are smirking because they're pretty sure that whatever women want, or will want in November...
...downside of employee-wellness programs like this one has always been that most people who enroll are already fit. A company's unhealthiest, and therefore costliest, employees continue to smoke, drink and eat their way to an early grave. According to a 1993 study, half of the 2 million deaths that occur each year in the U.S. can be linked to unhealthy life-styles. The three biggest culprits--tobacco, lack of exercise and a high-fat diet--together account for at least $200 billion of the nation's $1 trillion in health-care costs...
...black children are always in a very distinct minority. There are enough of them for blacks to feel they are not just tokens but not so many that whites feel uneasy. The poor kids who attend such schools are charity cases, gifted children carefully selected to make sure they fit...
...SHUE'S FIT...
From the perspective of today's budgetary quandaries, we might see the funneling of federal funds into The Hub as an abuse of power. Indeed, it seems to fit the stereotype of the entrenched pre-Gingrich liberal regime. But despite the new national distant for such political practice, it is almost a fact of life in Boston...