Word: slim
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...market value is about $8 billion and whose profits last year totaled $1 billion. The state has sold 20.4% of Telmex stock, which represents the majority of voting power, for $1.76 billion. The buyers: a consortium led by Grupo Carso, a Mexico City-based conglomerate headed by entrepreneur Carlos Slim and including Southwestern Bell and France Telecom. But the Federal Communications Commission in Washington is considering regulatory changes that could limit one of Telmex's most lucrative businesses, handling phone calls from the U.S. Salinas is also selling the country's two largest steel mills and a 66% interest...
Health officials are concerned that the desire to stay slim may be contributing to the high rate of smoking among teenage girls, who tend to take up the habit at a younger age than boys. Just this month the American Journal of Public Health reported that more than twice as many adolescent girls as boys said they were worried about gaining weight if they quit smoking. In years past, cigarette companies capitalized on such fears. Lucky Strike ads in the 1920s encouraged women to "Reach for the Lucky Strike Instead of a Sweet." Unfortunately, doctors note, even modest weight gains...
...chances of a spring concert are looking slim to none," said vice-chair David A. Aronberg '93. "We were kind of upset because they told us nothing beforehand. All of a sudden, they said, 'Well, sorry...
Time is short. The gulf war forged new alliances, shattered old ideas and forced a reconsideration of dug-in positions, giving peace at least a slim chance in the Middle East. But the new climate may not last much longer than a desert rainstorm; old habits, ways of thinking and alignments could quickly reassert themselves. So, to use a much overworked but appropriate metaphor, all parties interested in an Arab-Israeli peace process must scramble through the window of opportunity before it bangs shut...
...alumnus, Bening also did brief time in Postcards from the Edge as a romantic rival of Meryl Streep's. Time will tell if she can challenge Streep's pre-eminence. For now she seems a better bet as a threat to Kathleen Turner; she comes on like Turner's slim, sex-kitten kid sister...