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There are, of course, two ways to plan a more effective diet: You can research the subject thoroughly, and, working closely with your physician, design a program that combines gradual weightloss with good nutrition and regular exercise. Or you can ask all your friends what they do to lose weight...

Author: By Beckie Sherman, | Title: Losing the Frosh 15 | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

Spence proposed the gradual establishment of 40new non-science professorships; the FAS currentlyhas about 800 members, many of whom are in thesciences. Depending on how many are tenuredpositions, the price tag could fall anywherebetween $40 and $90 million, according to afundraising source...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Spence Report Lists FAS's Top Fundraising Priorities | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

...standing in a trenchcoat next to the Wall, reporting on live network television. But the primary obstacle to reunification was never the Wall itself, but the yawning political chasm between two 40-year-old international alliances. When and if it comes, reunification will be preceded by a gradual German abrogation of the opposing supranational commitments which keep them at arm's length...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: A Reunification Primer | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...been to support Uncle Toms. De Klerk has publicly praised Black leaders who prefer gradual desegregation policies. After meeting with several Black evangelical leaders, for example, de Klerk was quoted as saying, "They told me that radicalism is representative of a small minority of the total black population and that the vast majority of all black South Africans are striving for moderate solutions...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Buying Time in South Africa | 11/29/1989 | See Source »

...smaller increase in two stages: to $96,600 next year (when they must stand for election), then to nearly $125,000 by 1991. More important, they offered a swap: they would take the pay raise in exchange for passing a much needed package of reforms, including the gradual elimination of outside income. Even though the Senate refused to go along, Congressmen can argue that taxpayers will be getting something for the extra money they will be paying their legislators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give A Little, Get a Little | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

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