Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...industry has a good reason for resisting changes in this cold bath, known to critics as "fecal soup": the process allows chickens to become waterlogged. Regulations allow as much as 8% of a chicken's weight to be water, which consumers pay for as if it were meat. "When it comes to chicken," says Jack Leighty, a retired director of the USDA's pathology division, "water is big business." So big, in fact, that Tyson alone would lose about $40 million in annual gross profits if the 8% rule were repealed. One study has shown that cross-contamination...
...They had weight, they were respected, cool guys," says an alumni member of the Fly who graduated more than a decade ago and supports making the club co-ed. "To do something like this takes guts--you need a core group. It may sound silly to you, but in the context of the club it takes guts...
...offers instead are a dozen fictional sketches from his staked-out territory at the edge of the natural world. The stories are slight, and the term note suggests sketchbook impressions, perhaps, for canvases that might someday be painted. Thus slyly discounted by their author, these spare narrations carry surprising weight. One story, Teal Creek, is nothing more than a teenager's recollection of coming instinctively to respect a rural hermit's solitude. Although Lopez is known for wavering dangerously close to poetic prose, here he leaves all the right things unsaid, and the silence resonates...
...Harvard name carries a lot of weight on Wall Street, McNulty said...
...really don't give much credence to these surveys," Fryer said. "I'm half expecting a survey to appear ranking these schools on gross body weight...