Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night to make sure the kid is still honoring the curfew and to search the place, he finds on the wall of a closet the roster of the Argyle Street Ballers, a small gang that sells drugs. "Now we know the players," he explains. "Now we can put the weight on them...
Stewart is not alone in putting weight on potential juvenile offenders in Boston. The city's Operation Night Light, which began in 1992, and Operation Cease-Fire, which emerged last year, have unleashed desk-bound probation officers in a drive coordinated with other law-enforcement agencies to keep drugs and weapons off the streets. The joint operations, part of a larger collaborative effort, have led to one startling result. Last week Boston completed its second year without anyone under 17 being killed by a firearm. No other American city with a population over half a million can match this record...
...heart valve. When they opened up her heart, surgeons noticed that the valve was white and shiny, suggesting some sort of drug reaction. The drugs she had been taking, it turned out, were fen/phen, the appetite suppressants fenfluramine and phentermine that have become the diet pills of choice among weight-conscious Americans...
...writes William Strunk in his classic Elements of Style. "This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short...but that every word tell." The sound bite is the ultimate in making every word tell. It is the very soul of compactness. Brevity is not enough. You need weight. Hence some sound bites qualify for greatness: F.D.R.'s "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" or Reagan's "Tear down this wall." Others--"a bridge to the 21st century"--are just short and gaseous...
Having done the children's book, the memoir, the juice commercial, the lecture tour, the newspaper column and the Weight Watchers-spokeswoman thing, what will the Duchess of York do next? Why, a network-TV special, of course. ABC has signed SARAH FERGUSON to be the anchor of a show in which she travels around the U.S. talking to and working with inspirational people. "It's not a Diane Sawyer situation. She wants to do more than just sit down and talk to them," says a source close to the production. If the first special flies, the plan...