Word: maintain
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...about caloric intake, absurd one-fruit-an-hour diets, screensavers that say, “Diet or die,” Facebook notes that cry out for help, a sudden and inexplicable switch to veganism, etc. While anorexia is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual as failure to maintain body weight within 85% of expected, disordered eating has no such quantitative criteria, falling into the catch-all category “EDNOS,” or Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified. A study conducted in 2008 by Self Magazine in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
...higher probability of defaulting on their loans than American students, a Citibank spokesman said at the time. The bank had also canceled similar agreements with other schools including MIT and the University of Michigan. The abrupt termination of the program left Harvard administrators scrambling to find ways to maintain their commitment to financial aid across the University. University President Drew G. Faust has repeatedly said that Harvard will sustain current levels of graduate student financial aid for the next year—which she has deemed one of the University’s top priorities—even...
...Bravo chronicled the high maintenance and the people who highly maintain them. No area of pampering was too obscure: luxe hotels (Welcome to the Parker), fashion (The Rachel Zoe Project), hairdressing (Blow Out), real estate (Million Dollar Listing), upscale gyms (Work Out), home dcor (Top Design), even exclusive-travel-booking (First Class All the Way). Whether you snark at the housewives or cheer for Top Chef's hopeful restaurateurs, there's always a window-shopping appeal: the aspirational lure of those spa treatments and seared foie gras...
...After a new administration aligned with the yellow-wearing royalists came to power in December, the new opposition began staging its crimson protests. Local pundits kid that P.M. Abhisit is being deluged by a Red Sea. The joke among journalists who try to maintain their reportorial objectivity is that orange, a mix of yellow and red, may be the best color to wear when reporting on Thai politics...
...among others - the Prime Minister needs the cooperation, if not the support, of the army. And so her handling of this crisis will be a crucial test of her ability to balance the frustrations of Bangladeshis who are chafing under a powerful military with her own political imperative to maintain good relations with one of the country's largest, strongest and most stable institutions...