Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walkers: Usually seen traveling in groups, these organisms like to occupy all of the space alloted by Cambridge's narrow paths. Passing a gaggle of these could be disastrous: an ill-timed swing of a one-pound weight or walkman could send you reeling either into the muddy banks of the Charles or in the middle of oncoming traffic. Instead, charge through the middle of the pack, paying no attention to their resulting bellows...
...important to remember that Allman was voted in as captain last year--so he's had the job for six months now. While yet to lead the team on the ice (except for a scrimmage at Dartmouth), he's been the quiet leader of the weight room and the track...
...rather nice to think so. It's just that it's such a waste, such a terrible waste. We are, for the most part, no fatter or thinner than we were when we started out, despite our neurotic attention to the matter. We may gain and lose a little weight here and there, but more often than not, it all comes back to the same, basic body...
...exuberance of Pakistanis was understandable. Their country is drowning in $32 billion of foreign debt, and Sharif had behaved like a petty tyrant. "People were so fed up," said former President Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari. "They thought a weight had been taken off them...
Voss, universally known as P.V., climbs up to the windowless weight room above the gym for her morning workout: abdominal crunches in sets of 20, leg presses and toe raises, free weights for working her obliques. She's thinking about tonight's school-board meeting. A survey last year found that most people in town are happy with the schools--which she considers a challenge. "That could mean they're less willing to spend more to improve them...