Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intense preoccupation with dieting and lose at least 25 percent of their original body weight but still see themselves as fat. Bulimics are more difficult to diagnose because they binge and then purge, not greatly affecting body weight. The most difficult type of eating disorder to diagnose is the irregular eating habit. Large numbers of students pursue very unhealthy eating patterns, going on crash diets, eating unbalanced meals, binging on sweets...
...hilarious refutations of this charge have come from Author Ian Frazier, 35, an alumnus of the Harvard Lampoon and a New Yorker staff writer whose stories began bouncing off the wall and into the magazine some ten years ago. These appearances have, to be sure, been infrequent and highly irregular. Dating Your Mom collects a decade's worth of funny business: 25 short pieces, all but four of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. The book can easily be read in one sitting. And that is exactly the wrong way to read...
...embarrassing foul-up, however, was no laughing matter for the Reagan Administration. It is highly irregular for the White House to break the news that a foreign government has fallen, and virtually unheard of when the affected country is a U.S. ally. To compound that anomaly by issuing a report that was incorrect as well may be unprecedented. During the afternoon, when Duvalier was reported to have been seen riding through the streets of Port-au- Prince, Haiti's capital, the seriousness of the diplomatic gaffe gave way to a spirited round of pass-the-buck...
...Irregular weather had brought us together in the spirit of carefree abandonment, but dazzling, snow-filled skies would inevitably clear for the usual Cambridge chill. Camp Harvard is only in session when Mother Nature has the time to be an indulgent proctor and pamper her charges with a climatic study break...
...these weapons." The incident marked a turning point of sorts for the Sandinistas. "Now that (SA-7s) are introduced, the war has a new character," warned Ortega. Never before, he insisted, have Latin American guerrilla forces used such advanced weaponry. "When Shultz says it is right that the irregulars use these rockets, then that is giving the go-ahead to the use of rockets to any irregular force in any part of the world...