Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the quest for the elusive perfect physical condition, so haunted by the very possibility of sickness that they are unable to enjoy the benefits of good health. They love to go out in the sun, only to worry about skin cancer. They diet continually, but agonize about gaining weight. They exercise relentlessly, yet live in dread of heart disease. The result of all this worrying, says Arthur J. Barsky, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is that Americans are "living the life of invalids...
...grow above 5'2" so that she can go to the Olympics. We watch her push herself practice after practice, with her upcoming meet as the only object of her attention. But we also watch her throw up after every practice, break out into sweat in her sleep, lose weight and pass out in front of her friends...
...trouble selling to a reluctant Congress. "The station would be needed to serve as an assembly point," says NASA's Brian Pritchard, who has studied the feasibility of such a plan. "We don't have the power to lift from 1 million to 3 million lbs. ((the weight of the Mars ship)) into orbit from the earth...
...Hegemony" is the Chinese catchall word that denotes the U.S.S.R.'s penchant, especially during the 1970s, for throwing its military weight around in the world. The principal examples -- what Chinese officials call the Three Obstacles to normalization of relations between the two countries -- are the Soviet Union's deployment of more than 50 divisions along the Chinese northern border, its occupation of Afghanistan and its support for Viet Nam's occupation of Kampuchea. Gorbachev, who is eager to hold a summit with the 83- year-old Deng, has been making, or at least hinting at, concessions on all three issues...
...appearance by a U.S. vice president is rare. U.S. officials said the purpose was to lend weight to U.S. arguments about the tragedy and emphasize the need to end the 8-year...