Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although he had looked good earlier in the Games, taking a bronze in the downhill. His expression as the other racers failed seemed to ask, "What do I do now?" Carry the weight of a gold medal was the answer: he was France's first ski hero in several thin years...
...second study supported the idea that people inherit physiological traits that predispose them to obesity. A group led by Physiologist Susan B. Roberts of Tufts University studied 18 infants during their first year of life: six of their mothers were thin; twelve were overweight. Roberts and her colleagues measured how many calories the babies took in and how many they burned off. By three months of age, six of the babies with overweight mothers were generating 21% less energy than the rest. At one year, the six had become overweight, although they ate no more than the thinner babies...
...Dole toured the South late last week, he seemed depressed and distracted. His press entourage had dwindled. Rally crowds were thin. In a Florida address, the ordinarily aggressive Senator was on the defensive. "Whatever you see on TV ads, Bob Dole is not going to raise taxes," he said, once again employing the third-person syntax that is beginning to sound like self-parody. "Bob Dole has never raised taxes...
...that may be unavoidable, given all the styles currently available. Like cars, white shirts come with an array of customizing options, including button, snap or cutaway Windsor collars, as well as dobby weaves, textured herringbones and jacquards. Among the latest variations are snowy shirts with thin, widely spaced purple or teal stripes. Says Barbara Kirk, a men's-furnishings buyer for the Seattle-based Nordstom stores: "A plain white shirt isn't just a plain white shirt anymore." Nor is it cheap: at Wilkes Bashford, the price can reach $235 for a French-cuff Charvet shirt, made of Sea Island...
...Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government the late President's vision of equality in the public workplace casts barely a thin shadow over the institution dedicated to the pursuit of the value of public management. In fact, students emerging from the school's prestigious Senior Executive Fellows Program--in which government agencies pay up to $17,000 per student for management training--will conclude that women are hardly protagonists in the public debate...