Word: slimmer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Greed cuts both ways, of course. Six Labrador retriever breeders say they have filed a class action against the AKC and the Labrador Retriever Club Inc. for changing the breed standard to favor slimmer, longer-legged animals over the traditional stockier, shorter ones -- thereby devaluing the out-of-date model. And some owners of a relatively rare dog called the Havanese, which arrived in this country from Cuba in the mid-1970s, are actively seeking AKC recognition, despite worries by other owners that they are inviting overbreeding and genetic problems...
...familiar "sound in body, sound in mind" argument is certainly questionable on its own terms. More importantly, it is irrelevant to Cucci's desire for a slimmer student body, inasmuch as its goal is not actual weight loss, but a more vague ideal best defined as "being in touch with your body...
...Wedding Banquet is slimmer, more anecdotal, but has the same theme: the sacrifices that old-fashioned parents and modern kids make for one another. Handsome, Taiwan-born Wai-tung (Winston Chao) is doing well in Manhattan real estate and has a loving lover, Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). But his parents back home -- the General (Sihung Lung) and Mrs. Gao (Ah-leh Gua) -- urgently want a grandchild. How do you arrange a marriage if your son is gay? Not so hard, if he doesn't tell you. Easier still, if he arranges it himself, after Simon suggests that Wai-tung...
...several choices. Choices which do include bringing the fetus to term and then keeping it or giving it up for adoption (a side note of interest, if the baby put up for adoption is of a non-white ethnicity, its chances of being adopted are much slimmer). In fact, I know of many "pro-choice" advocates who themselves are personally against abortion. Yet, they realize that not all women hold the same opinion and they understand that to outlaw abortion would destroy that individual choice from all women. That is why we call ourselves Pro-Choice. Mike Evers...
Barber: You're slimmer in the thighs and rear, but you've still got a big potbelly. Yours is the body type associated with a higher risk of heart disease...