Word: weighted
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...third of the artichoke with a serrated knife. If you'd like, snip off the pointy tips of the outermost large leaves. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, and slip in the lemon halves and the prepared artichokes. Weight the artichokes down with a heatproof plate to keep them submerged as they cook. Boil until the bottom of the artichoke is tender when poked with the tip of a paring knife, 20 to 30 minutes, depending on size. To serve and eat the artichoke, remove the artichokes from the boiling water with a slotted spoon...
...couldn't agree more. In 2004, Big Blue launched five different wellness efforts aimed at getting its employees to work out more, lose weight, eat better, quit smoking and heed preventive medical advice. The company, which also has a program designed to encourage healthy habits in employees' children, has spent about $130 million on wellness so far, much of that in the form of cash rewards of up to $300 per employee annually for good behavior. Doris Gonzalez, 50, a senior program manager in corporate affairs at IBM's Armonk, N.Y., headquarters, now walks 20 minutes a day, does aerobics...
...Three generations, two adorable girls and a dog - no First Family has lived with the weight of hope and hype that has landed on the Obamas. Clothes they wear fly off the shelves. Dog breeders from Germany to Australia couldn't keep up with the demand for Portuguese water dogs after Bo debuted. Michelle is the first First Lady to make Maxim's hottest-women-in-the-world list. (She's No. 93; it probably wouldn't be proper for a First Lady to come in any higher.) Cameras with lenses that can count her pores from three states away...
...women, just like they haven't in all previous elections, so there was no point in registering," Taleghani told TIME. "It's convenient for them to say that it's not because we're women but because we don't qualify as religious-political personalities. It lifts the weight off their shoulders, but what are we all then? Heathens...
This year, financial-sector earnings probably troughed in the first quarter, so the risk becomes don't be too underweight. It takes a huge swing to go from not owning any financial stocks to being market weight in financial stocks. Big investors are scrambling to catch up. (Read "The Outlook for Stocks is Decidedly ... Mixed...