Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...planning J.J.'s safe return to the sea, Yip had another concern: pleasing upper management at Anheuser-Busch, which owns the four Sea World theme parks and promotes its beer on the premises. Yip, unaccustomed to the image business, felt the weight of corporate pressure "for everything to go right." Critics of Sea World, who argue that park officials could simply release their captive killer whales if they truly cared about freeing animals, contend J.J. was little more than a cetacean Spuds MacKenzie. "The J.J. event was purely driven by corporate image needs," says Susan Davis, author of the book...
...Oppenheim remains unconvinced of the oppressive weight of "cultural" questions, he might ask himself why many queers who are comfortable with the "moral" aspects of their sexuality choose to remain closeted. While it is true that Harvard is often admirably queer-friendly, especially on level of Faculty and House masters, it has failed the queer community many times. The reassignment of first-year roommates at the request of a student who could not live with a homosexual is one example that has surfaced in the past years...
...more than ever before by a large margin. The Sports department has a larger executive staff this year, which means that more sports are assured some coverage. There has also been a concerted effort to have more features highlighting issues in less-known sports, such as women's boxing, weight loss techniques for wrestlers, fencing and Women's Olympic Hockey...
...Elaine Chestney '98 said after waiting in a "rowdy throng" to report her height and weight in front of her classmates, she then had to get her skull circumference measured...
...must be Social Security. President Clinton's much-trumpeted week of policy pronouncements continued with the opening of a bipartisan "national dialogue" in Kansas City, Mo., on the future of your retirement check. By current reckoning, it'll be a mere three decades before the system buckles under the weight of the Baby Boomers. "We can and must put Social Security in order," said Clinton. "It would be unconscionable if we failed...