Word: masse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liquid diet, patients have to return to the all too tempting world of food and the all too easily avoided reality of exercise. That is when the real test comes, says Ted Schilling, 42, an attorney in Osterville, Mass. A veteran of "every diet you could be on," Schilling took to heart the behavioral-modification classes he attended while losing 100 lbs. A year and a half later, his weight is still off. Says Schilling proudly: "I'm living a normal life with food...
...Project, an enterprise of the Center for Health Communication at Harvard's School of Public Health (SPH), is drawing on the power of the American mass media to "add momentum to changes that are already beginning to occur in reducing drunk driving and increasing use of the designated driver," says Winsten...
...emphasis on anti-drunk driving programming during the winter holidays, but the Project would like more effort made. "There's a big peak in drunk driving just before Christmas and New Year's but also around July 4 and Labor Day," says Winsten. "Our goal is to get the mass media doing this year-round...to get American society tuned to the problem year round...
Ground crews scurry among the mass of parked aircraft with the few rolling stairways available...
Conspicuously missing from the debate is the central role of the Mafia in spreading the epidemic. Even the heavy blows dealt the Mob in the so-called Pizza Connection trials in the U.S. in 1987 and the mass trial and subsequent imprisonment of more than 300 Mafiosi in Sicily proved to be only temporary victories. Palermo's special investigating magistrates are trying, with little evident success, to untangle the intimate ties between the Sicilian Mob and politicians in the South. Like many legitimate businesses, the Mafia has gone global and uses sophisticated financial strategies to launder drug profits...