Word: lone
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...which offer special foods and pills, claim to provide guidance by "weight-loss professionals." Customers may presume that these professionals are nutritionists, says Wyden, but they are "basically salespersons." Ads for the Physicians Weight Loss Centers imply that a doctor will supervise each patient's diet, but frequently the lone staff physician spends just one night a week at the center...
...unwillingness to recognize the spiritual needs of African Americans. He also complained that the church did not recognize and nurture talent (presumably his own) and that James Cardinal Hickey had insisted he undergo psychiatric treatment. According to the Post, Hickey made the demand after years of frustration over Stallings' Lone Ranger tactics. Especially disturbing to Hickey, said the Post, were Stallings' refusal to live in a rectory and questions about whether the priest's expensively decorated private residence had been partly funded by church offerings. The archdiocese also received repeated allegations about homosexual activity but was unable to substantiate them...
...much as substance. The absentminded, frizzed-out dreamer has become the archetype of male genius. "Don't bother Daddy. He's busy working on the space-time continuum." Substitute "novel," "fast ball" or "takeover plan" for the end of that statement, and you have the image of the lone genius. Genius needs a little slack; we all want to be Einstein. In Western civilization, a man is not a man who is not stiff-arming some woman who wants a commitment and riding alone into the sunset to Do What He Must Do, leaving her behind to clean...
...from Taiwan and South Korea, all driven by an admirable work ethic. There are also fragmented Filipino families headed by women, and Hmong tribesmen who know little of technology and are dependent upon public assistance. "There are people without hope in the Asian-American community," says Michael Woo, the lone Asian member of the Los Angeles city council. It is a strange notion to those whose only awareness of Asian Americans is of whiz-kid scholars and hardworking greengrocers...
Naturally, I was upset by the dream--especially by the pathetic expression on the lone survivor's face. But lately I have begun to re-evaluate this revulsion. Maybe I had stumbled upon a solution to the problem of the lack of a women's center on this campus...