Word: overweightness
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...least one was-Sally Kellerman, 30 pounds overweight then and always unhappy in love. "I would sit on Jack's lap and pour out my heart to him," she says. For sustenance they would go to the supermarket for some "sweeties and souries"-ice cream and potato chips-and gorge between traumas. "Jack was the funniest man in the world," Kellerman recalls, "and always available when I needed him-a true friend...
...sell there." In similar circumstances executives in other businesses might elect to keep then" products off the market until prices rose. But the feeders cannot readily do that: the critters go on gobbling expensive corn, put on still more pounds-and packers pay less per pound for overweight steers than they do for pleasingly plump ones, because the additional weight is mostly unwanted fat. About all the operators can do is go on selling the steers when they reach optimum slaughter weight and hope for a price rebound later. That could happen in about six months, to the housewife...
...exhortations to conserve energy. Amoco, which last April dropped a $1 million product campaign aimed at luring vacationers into the company's gas stations, now runs print and TV "progress reports" on subjects such as "America's great natural-resources appetite." With cameras, Atlantic Richfield followed two overweight men around while they attempted to live without their cars. Each of them lost 35 pounds in three months of walking and watching their diets. Arco commercials now advise weight watchers: "Leave your car in the garage...
...claims he has ferreted out an as yet unforbidden social prejudice: against the fat. Half-5 ft. 10 in. and 150 Ibs.-surveyed 15,000 executives across the nation and discovered that of those earning $25,000 to $45,000 per year, only 9% were more than 10 Ibs. overweight. In the $10,000 to $20,000 bracket, however, fully 40% were. Half s conclusion: the fat executive is being grossly underpaid and underpromoted. "You should hire on the basis of competency," he urges...
...When you discriminate against overweight people, you may end up with mediocrity. One client said he didn't want anybody who was from Brooklyn...