Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lean federal budget, pork-barrel politics as usual...
This is true of men, women, children, individually and in groups of all sizes. Nations and the realm of politics lean heavily on indirect gesture and charades to convey important messages. Take Secretary of State Alexander Haig's talks in China: Was not his actual purpose to send a signal to the Soviets? Societies signal prevalent values to their members by what is applauded and what condemned; status symbol is synonymous with status signal. "Language," said Samuel Johnson, "is the dress of thought." But all over the world people act as though language were mere costume-and usually...
Coming into the heavy weight-loss championship, the two opponents, both bestselling diet authors, were lean and mean. When the bell rang for their appearance on NBC's late-night Tomorrow show, Dr. Robert Atkins (Dr. Atkins' Diet Book) and Nathan Pritikin (The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise) spattered like fast-frying bacon. In the crossfire of insults and accusations, refereed by Tomorrow Co-Host Tom Snyder, 45, Pritikin, who advocates a low-cholesterol, high-exercise program, asserted that Atkins' high-fat, high-protein diet increased the chances of heart disease and certain cancers. After...
Throughout the history of U.S. education, as Lawrence Cremin, president of Columbia University's Teachers College, points out in a 100-year survey published last year, the pendulum has swung repeatedly between academic and religious values in U.S. schools. If, as ex-Principal Barton suggests, fundamentalist schools lean too far toward indoctrination and authoritarianism, public school educators are increasingly willing to concede they have been neglecting traditional values of character and citizenship in the classroom...
...reduce cholesterol levels most doctors recommend a very un-American diet. Says Dr. Jeremiah Stamler of Northwestern University: "We need more fruit, more vegetables, beans, fish, skim milk, lean meat and poultry. I'd like to see McDonald's have fresh orange juice as well as Coke, baked potatoes as well as French fries, yogurt instead of pie. If we could get more diet changes in the U.S. there would not be a big coronary problem in this country...