Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...getting instruction from Coach Rawson, club members do push-ups and situps. They jump rope, shadow box, and hit the speed bag. They also sweat. A lot. Members like Katie Feoick '96-- who joined the club in part because she was looking for an activity which would keep her fit--have not been disappointed...
...after local health authorities ruled out severe flu and pneumonic plague -- the latter is endemic to the Southwest, and a few cases show up every year -- they turned to the CDC for help. Recalls Dr. C.J. Peters, chief of the CDC's Special Pathogens Branch: "It didn't fit the pattern of anything we'd seen, and all we could figure is that it was something brand...
That kind of faux pas was unacknowledged in the days of Ozzie and Harriet and flesh-colored Band-Aids, when one advertising message fit all customers. But like the homogenized, '50s-style households for which they were created, the tools of mass marketing are headed for the Trashmaster of history. Waves of immigrants from Asia, Latin America and Africa, added to an already growing minority population, are radically reshaping the face and buying habits of the "typical" American consumer...
That is all a far cry from the narrow spectrum of mostly Christian believers so celebrated by Crevecoeur, who foresaw "religious indifference" spreading from one end of the continent to the other. Where that would lead, he wondered, "no one can tell; perhaps it may leave a vacuum fit to receive other systems." In America's third century, that vacuum has been filled to overflowing...
...where Gomez has made guest appearances), and she is adapting her show into a screenplay. "I think the essence of my $ work is that I come from some very strong backgrounds -- gay, Cuban, Puerto Rican," says Gomez, "and I don't feel like I don't fit into any one of them...