Word: slimming
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...saying that if you're overweight you are going to get laid off, but you know employers are looking for every little excuse to get rid of people, so looking good is a great defense. You always want to look young, and you want to look slim, and you want to look in control. We have a lot of negatives in our society attached to people who are overweight - sloppy, lazy, undisciplined. You don't want anything negative to affect people's opinions about you, because this is a really tough time that we're living in. Every little detail...
Saddled with the impossible task of portraying these discontinuous characters are a trio of television actors who apparently had slim pickings when it came to selecting their launch vehicle to the silver screen. Scott Porter (“Friday Night Lights”) plays the dashing Tommy Fielding, who looks to the audience like a high school senior doing his internship at a Wall Street firm, but whom the film helpfully tells us is actually a stock broker there. Painted from the start as “the good guy” in a depraved world full of cut-throats...
...anyone trying to lose weight, one of the first indulgences to get cut from their diet is alcohol. After all, alcohol packs 7 kcal/g - a good-size glass of wine contains more than 150 calories - an extravagance that could stymie efforts to slim down...
...alone it runs 21 élite Catholic prep schools, a university in Sacramento, Calif., and some of the only seminaries for teenage boys in the U.S. at a time when the American priesthood's ranks are thinning exponentially. In Mexico, the children of telecom billionaire Carlos Slim, one of the world's richest people, have attended its academies. In fact, like its rival conservative organization Opus Dei, the Legion counts some of the world's wealthiest Catholics among its followers - its lay membership, known as the Regnum Christi, or Kingdom of Christ, numbers some 70,000 worldwide...
...they accept the results, can they form a government quickly, and can that government move forward on an agenda? If Iraq's leaders can't work out a compromise without Vice President Joe Biden - the Administration's point man on Iraq - making several trips to Baghdad, the chances are slim the Iraqi political system will be able to stand on its own once the U.S. leaves...