Word: shedding
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...Huckabee, who had long fought problems with obesity, was diagnosed with Type II diabetes. Determined to take charge of his health, he shed 110 pounds over the course of the next two years. This effort culminated in his completion of four marathons. USA Track & Field, the national governing body for competitive track, even named Huckabee their “Athlete of the Week” in March 2005. What better model for a country fighting an obesity epidemic than a head of state who has conquered the problem himself...
...restaurants, everything." The waterfront DaimlerChrysler Canada headquarters opened to much fanfare there in 2002, when the city's auto-manufacturing industry was red-hot. Today, the building's cavernous ground-floor retail space is almost empty. As the rising dollar made Canadian products more expensive around the world, Canada shed nearly 100,000 manufacturing jobs in 12 months. "We went from [being] the lowest-cost producer of vehicles around the world for GM, Ford and Chrysler to probably one of the highest," says Buzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers Union...
...city of Cambridge itself has continued its custom of festooning Harvard Square with strings of lights. Overhanging Massachusetts Avenue at various locations, peculiar whirlpool-shaped designs shed blurs of light on the automobiles and pedestrians passing below. These odd illuminations alert visitors and residents alike of some impending festive occasion, but remain ambiguous as to what that occasion might be. Lights during December traditionally signal Christmas, even when arranged in no particular pattern, but the Cambridge decorations seem to imply some other holiday by their strangeness: something new, something different, something starkly conscious of a Christian heritage they carefully avoid...
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf once referred to his general's uniform as a "second skin." On Nov. 28, yielding to pressure from his own people as well as from his strongest ally, the U.S., Musharraf finally shed that skin. In a ceremony at military headquarters in Rawalpindi, atearful Musharraf handed the baton to a loyalist, saying "I have loved this army...
...late 1990s, Sharp's president, Katsuhiko Machida, was determined to shed the company's image as a mere parts provider, so he approached industrial designer Toshiyuki Kita for help. "Our goal was to create not just a flat TV but a completely new product," says Masatsugu Teragawa, Sharp's corporate audiovisual director. "It had to look nothing like what we know TV to look like...