Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Viscaya is what real estate agents like to describe as "very special." Maybe a little too special. The two-bedroom units in the pencil-thin tower start at $582,500 and go as high as $1.2 million. They come complete with spectacular views, small kitchens (who cooks?), marble baths with Jacuzzi whirlpools and a roof garden for parties. Owner Harold Lynn, 45, a onetime Seventh Avenue clothing importer, admits that the Rolls come-on amounts to a $110,000 discount to perk up sales (twelve of his 21 units are unsold...
...been forced to compromise, sparing Social Security, signing the new $5 billion jobs bill, and even raising some taxes. But the pressure for new taxes will continue as the projected deficit becomes a really and the patience of some of Reagan's Rightist supporters has already been stretched thin. Reagan's political strength comes from his clear separation from the policies of the Democrats: like Falldin, he cannot abandon the image he built in his campaigns and expect his support to remain intact...
...Italian Renaissance. It was developed by Ludovico degli Arrighi, a Vatican chancery scribe, who in 1522 composed the first writing manual for popular use, La Operina. Like much Western writing since antiquity, this simplified italic is written with a broad-edged pen, yielding a pleasing alternation of thick and thin lines, depending on the angle of the stroke. It is also easy to write because it follows the natural movement of the wrist. The writer need only obey the pen to create an even rhythm and beautiful form...
...faculty party, Lianna spots Dick frolicking in a sandbox with one of his female students. When, later in the evening, she accuses him of indefidelity, he neither admits to not denies the charge. But the thin trickle of sand as he removes his shoe confirms his guilt. Lianna leaves him and moves in with Ruth, her night-school psychology professor. It's that simple. One day she is married, the next she has a female lover...
...doctors point out that the weight charts are skewed by one key factor: smoking. As a group, smokers weigh less than average and die at an earlier age. Including them in the study thus tended to push the optimal weights higher. When the Framingham group examined the longevity of thin men who do not smoke, says Castelli, it found "the lowest overall death rate and the best health experiences" of any population...