Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last came two days of slaloms, short, twisting, violent races. Racers wearing heavily padded gloves and shin protectors charge straight at hinged flag gates and bash them aside. Schneider took a slim lead after the first run but fretted that she had been too passive. She is a country mouse from the tiny village of Elm, who at 13 quit school and competitive skiing to keep house after her mother died. She lists her hobby as knitting. Now she psyched herself into a fury, slugged gates like a boxer on her second run and won her second gold, ahead...
...truth, Inman-Ebel speaks perfect television-anchor talk, one of those serviceable voices from nowhere. She is a slim, freckled redhead with blue eyes and tight little muscles at the corners of a big smile. She dresses for success, has two kids at home, and holds a yellow belt with green tips in Taekwondo. The license plate on her car says I CAN, and she is inclined to say things like "Y'all can too." (She notes that her parents originally came from east Tennessee, and the occasional Southernism makes clients more comfortable...
...their genes to store fat instead of burn it. Scientists speculate that this ability may be a vestige of early human history, when those who could live off their fat reserves were more likely to survive droughts and famines. The bodies of such individuals actively resist every effort to slim down. Below a certain weight, their metabolism slows in order to allow fat to accumulate, but their appetites remain undiminished. Once body weight rises to a certain point, the metabolism seems to speed up, so that they maintain that weight without gaining any more. But, researchers note, a sluggish metabolism...
...flip side of Dole's Iowa victory was Vice President George Bush's defeat. Despite his status as Reagan's heir apparent, the advantages of office and more than $5 million in campaign funds, Bush finished a distant third, with a slim 19% of the vote. Pat Robertson, the former religious broadcaster who has never held public office, stunned the Republican establishment with 25% of the vote and a second-place finish, emerging as a powerful and potentially disruptive force...
Some of last week's most chilling testimony came from Ramon Milian Rodriguez, who described himself as the former chief financier for the drug cartel. The slim, Cuban-born accountant told how he laundered as much as $200 million a month through Panamanian and overseas banks. A fervent anti- Communist, he said he siphoned funds -- TIME has learned the amount was in the millions -- into secret accounts set up for the Nicaraguan contras. Administration officials have denied knowledge of any such transaction...