Word: slenderization
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...year-old real estate saleswoman and mother of three is propped up on a gray surgical chair at the posh Upper East Side Manhattan office of Dr. Rhoda Narins, professor at New York University and president-elect of the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery. Narins wields a slender hypodermic needle filled with a whitish slurry. After marking the laugh lines and creases around Weissman's mouth with a rust-colored disinfectant, she steps out of her high-heeled pumps to get the angle right and sets to work. Fifteen minutes and perhaps two dozen injections later, the wrinkles have...
...cold war ended and Southern California's economy slumped, Warner moved to New Jersey and took a low-wage position as a shoe salesman. He worked hard, but the job didn't really pay off--until the day he fit a pair of black, Italian flats on the slender feet of Mary Del Guidice...
...programs like Kazaa. Still, there's room for improvement. Since Music Store works only on Macs (and then only on those with OS X), the other 97% of consumers who use PCs can't try it until a Windows version, promised by year's end, comes out. And the slender song library, lacking a single tune by Madonna or the Rolling Stones, needs beefing up too. --By Anita Hamilton...
...appeal of Curves, though, can be judged by how many similar formats are being pushed by competitors, including Slender Lady, started in 1997 in Lompoc, Calif., and Ladies Workout Express, launched last year in Atlanta. That trend, combined with the rising number of Curves locations, has some franchisees worried they will soon be fighting not only fat but one another. Karen Morey, 40, who opened her Burton, Mich., Curves last April and has more than 750 customers, says, "I wonder if we're going to saturate the market." Heavin says at current growth rates, the domestic Curves franchises will...
...When the slender, white-haired Nelson Mandela, then 71, first glimpsed the crowd assembled at the gates of Victor Verster prison, he instinctively raised his right arm in the black-power salute of a clenched fist--a simple public gesture that he had not been able to make during his 27 years, six months and seven days of imprisonment. His release had been orchestrated by South Africa's white minority government, but it was a reluctant acknowledgement of what had become an unstoppable force. The world had lost patience with white rule in South Africa and had placed its faith...