Word: thins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revolution is over. Speaker Newt Gingrich, the confrontational rebel who engineered the GOP's 1994 takeover of the House after more than four decades of Democratic dominance, announced Friday that he would resign from the Congress, just three days after midterm elections which reduced the Republican advantage to a thin 11-vote margin...
...particularly good start. But when the two were thrown together to salvage the doomed nomination of Henry Foster for Surgeon General ("It was pretty well screwed up by then," Bowles says), Bowles noticed something about the prickly, rail-thin Podesta. "Every time this guy said something, it was acerbic, but it was always on target," Bowles told TIME. Both of them eventually left the White House to do other work, and both returned--but this time Bowles had recruited Podesta back to be his deputy. And when Bowles was ready to leave as chief of staff...
...resident chef of Cafe Japonaise has a point. A soy bath drowns out the nutty taste of more delicate fish like suzuki (sea bass) or yellowtail. Crab sticks ($3) are supported by thin strips of cucumber and held together by a ribbon of seaweed on top of a gently formed and richly textured ball of rice. Velvety tuna is pounded into the texture of tartar and mixed with scallions in the Tuna and Scallion Roll ($4.50). Iridescent slabs of yellowtail arrive on a platter ($16.50) with translucent pink tuna slices, striated salmon, and a seaweed purse brimming with giant...
Perhaps it is fitting that Asano, who has seenthe thin times in Harvard's hockey program, wouldput it best...
...pierce some of that denial by listening to how someone you are concerned about talks about her body. Does she moan about her fat behind even though she's rail thin? Is she hiding under baggy clothes? Has her energy level dropped so low that she's sleeping all the time? Doctors suspect anorexia when a woman weighs 15% below normal and hasn't menstruated for at least three months. But there are more subtle signs as well: the growth of baby-fine hair (as the shrinking body tries to keep warm), brittle nails, swollen joints. Bulimics may develop...