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Word: trimly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should we be thin, trim and toned? Only because that is what society valorizes, especially in women. This is a truism, and one which Cucci has clearly accepted, even as he ostensibly jogs along some sort of moral high ground...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Perpetuating the Beauty Myth | 2/12/1994 | See Source »

...women well know, there is a fairly large disparity between the weight we are "allowed" to be for the purposes of health and the weight we are taught we "should" be. No one is going to die an untimely death because they're not sufficiently "trim"; much more dangerous are the eating disorders that the presumed importance of trimness leads us to adopt...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Perpetuating the Beauty Myth | 2/12/1994 | See Source »

...Clinton and his senior aides rode from their hotel to the Kremlin for their first round of talks, they wondered whether they would find Yeltsin firmly on course for more economic reforms or possibly planning to trim under pressure from the extreme nationalists and communists in the newly elected parliament. In political shorthand, the apprehension had a name: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the most visible and loudest of Moscow's band of neofascists. But Clinton was more broadly concerned last week with resentment among the Russian people and with whether Yeltsin would have to respond by firing some of the best-known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bear Hugs All Around | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...long ago, means testing was a notion embraced mostly by small political journals and policy wonks swimming in think tanks. But respectability came as the bipartisan cut-the-deficit Concord Coalition and investment banker Pete Peterson pushed schemes that would trim federal subsidies in gradual steps for families earning above about $40,000 a year. The new mood is reflected by Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, who declared recently, "Means testing in selected areas is an idea whose time has come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Their Turn to Pay? | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

Call it a nexus, a linking of best-seller components: war, romance, treachery and the sort of cross-cultural trim that has Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, mastermind of the Pearl Harbor strike, spouting about American baseball. He hates the Yankees for their brute power and likes the adroit Cardinals because "they play the game more like we do." This used to be called sneaky, though Deford, a veteran sportswriter, scores one for international correctness when Yamamoto notes that Westerners use the term "element of surprise" when referring to their own wily tactics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tokyo Bombers | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

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