Word: saddlebags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called liposuction, it entails the insertion under the skin of a hollow, blunt-ended tube that is attached to a high-powered suction machine that vacuums out the fat. The procedure can take 30 minutes to three hours, depending on how many problem areas are worked on. Removal of saddlebag thighs runs about $2,000; love handles, $1,500; saggy jowls, $1,300; and baggy knees, $1,200. Observes Dr. Jack D. Norman, a Miami plastic surgeon: "Twenty years ago, it was the nose job. In the 1970s, it was silicone implants. Now the rage is lipectomy...
...purely financial sense, the region lives on the federal dole. Tot up a year's spending by the Federal Government in the Rocky Mountain States- $20.5 billion on land and forest management, aid to agriculture, water of other projects, federal military bases programs and - a and saddlebag compare that with the total received from the states in taxes and other revenues - $14.5 billion -and Washington comes up $6 billion short. Admits Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church, who was voted out of office last month: "As beneficiaries, we are reluctant to confront or confess the federal largesse because it cuts...