Word: mantras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heads we just keep saying, my thighs are too fat, my breasts are too small, my tummy jiggles...These are the fears that are still too taboo to discuss in public, so we keep them inside. This private mantra that goes on in women's heads gets so loud that sometimes we can't even hear the conversations going on around us or the conversations in which we're participating...
...thighs and pounds. In doing so, not only do we lose our agency and voice, but we also isolate ourselves from everyone else, including the others who keep repeating: my thighs are too fat, my breasts are too small, my tummy jiggles. Indeed, those others are many--the mantra is epidemic...
Many students, desperate to abide by the ancient mantra "well-rested, well-tested," attempt to simultaneously absorb information and catch forty winks. The most advanced nappers have even mastered the art of taking notes while catching up on valuable REM shut-eye. However, not even the grand-masters can fight off the forces of snooze that pull the handwriting in a southeasternly direction towards the bottom of the page...
...declaring a budget surplus and allocating it is preserving Social Security, the President accomplishes a policy coup: he does nothing while claiming to have ameliorated a major problem. Clinton will simply restore to its coffers the Same money that allowed him to proclaim a surplus. His mantra of "sav[ing] Social Security first" has widespread political appeal, says Paul Gigot of The Wall Street Journal, because "few Americans know how Social Security works...
...lying. But of course he may be lying. If that's the case, fighting Starr in the courts buys the White House what it cherishes most: time. The plan, says McAllister, is to delay things a while and "hope that they catch a break." That's the Administration mantra: The later America finds out, the better...