Word: sized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trained and adaptable workers that the firms could not find on their own. Coopers & Lybrand is one of many employers "doing a lot more with internships," says James Lafond, a Washington-area managing partner. Internships offer training to young people while giving them and the company a chance to size one another...
...just starting. Daniel Nepstad, a tropical-forest ecologist at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, notes that "the eastern Amazon is teetering on the edge." The region has received one-fifth of its normal rainfall in the past year, and Nepstad says an area 20 times the size of Massachusetts is at risk...
...life-saving cures for cancer. They are normal parents who read to their kids when ill, cancel vacation plans without too much ado, have a verbal fight or two without getting distraught over it. Byers' characters are not larger than life, despite their whimy--they're just about life size...
That is because, as with products bearing the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, readers already know what they'll be getting with an Oprah book. Says Lamb: "They're all about people trying to connect out of their alienation." They are also usually intimate stories, painted on canvases the size of TV screens, with only occasional attempts by the authors to grapple with the grander forces of history or politics...
...what do kids see? This scene, for example: Dr. Drew listening closely to an embarrassed 21-year-old whose girlfriend has been joking to his friends about the size of his penis. Pinsky handles this painful subject with a quick, matter-of-fact suggestion: Take a closer, more informed look at your abusive girlfriend. After a crass joke from Pinsky's partner, comedian Adam Carolla--there to provide levity--Loveline's newest co-host, Diane Farr, affirms that size, despite what the ads for Godzilla say, is not all it's cracked up to be. Pinsky's message, both educational...