Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moreover, dieters pay an exorbitant price in time, energy and self-esteem to attain and keep their ultra-slim figures. "Most people equate dieting with some kind of a masochistic ritual and cannot feel successful unless they are sacrificing all pleasure in eating," says Karen Miller-Kovach, director of nutrition services for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Except for extremely thin or extremely heavy people, Andersen flatly declares, "the emphasis should be off weight and on health...
HEALTH Dieting may cut your figure slim and your life short...
Looking like a compact disc after a month on Slim-fast, the 2 1/2-in. MD is small enough to be played on a machine the size of a cigarette pack. But it holds as much music as its full-size cousin, and unlike the traditional CD (if something a decade old can be called traditional), the MD records as well as plays back. True, it does not offer the compact disc's perfection of fidelity, but the digital MD easily outperforms analog tape cassettes. And unlike portable CD units, the MD player doesn't skip when jolted...
...that Francis Fukuyama fretted over the "end of history" and thus provided a slogan for cold warriors' dismay at the waning of the all-defining struggle and the surrender of the essential enemy. Since then, the right has split into isolationist and internationalist camps. In the pages of this slim volume the two sides square off for intellectual combat of a high order...
...George Foreman spoiled? No, folks, just nicely ripened. He is a huge man, 6 ft. 4 in. and something like 250 lbs., with a shiny, shaved skull and a neck wider than his head, including his ears. He says coming into the ring too slim would be a mistake. He's teasing. He does that a lot, making it easy for reporters to laugh. Call him a fatted calf, call him a freak show, and he chuckles. "I like being me," he says now. "I have gotten rid of all problems like leaves hanging off a tree...