Word: lites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone chooses their concentration, and it is no secret that one can choose several different flavors here--ranging from Harvard Lite to Harvard Lager (Extra Dark). Responsible students still pick classes based on their interests, so maybe it's okay that science majors have to work just a little harder...
...Surgeon General. The President said he wanted Foster, the founder of a Nashville program aimed at delaying teen sexual activity through counseling, job training and medical services, to focus on battling the nation's "epidemic of teen pregnancies and unmarried pregnancies." Conservative groups immediately labeled Foster "Elders Lite," because he supports the use of condoms. He has admitted performing "fewer than a dozen'' abortions, but most congressional Republicans withheld their fire pending further study of his record...
...adventurous Roundabout Theatre Company has resurrected two one-act plays by the 17th century French master, dubbed them The Moliere Comedies and fashioned a sprightly, entertaining evening. These are slight, early works by the author of Tartuffe and The Misanthrope, but in a fallow Broadway season, Moliere Lite is better than nothing...
...similar to Elders', especially his eight-year-old "I Have a Future" program, which distributes condoms to disadvantaged teens. "The president is making another mistake, and it's my hope that the Senate will not," said Gary Bauer, president of the conservative Family Research Council, who labeled Foster "Elders-lite." "Our concern is that the Clinton administration doesn't understand why Joycelyn Elders was such a disaster...
...explosion of "lite" and "reduced-calorie" foods may also have raised the needle on the scale. People often forget that reduced-calorie foods are not calorie-free. Cathy DeThorne, a research director at the Leo Burnett advertising agency, ran a series of focus-group studies for the Beef Industry Council that suggest that when it comes to food, people show an almost infinite capacity for self-delusion. A woman believed she was eating a low-fat diet because she was pouring the fat off her pork chops. Others forsook meat for healthy salads, and then drowned those salads in dressings...