Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real reason for refusing to engage in any broad negotiation is emotional. The weight of 35 years of demonizing Castro is not easy to shrug off. Clinton is afraid that Republicans -- and plenty of Democrats -- will scorch him for cozying up to a communist devil. Yet that fear may be exaggerated: the Wall Street Journal editorial page, a powerful voice of conservatives, came out last week in favor of lifting the embargo, arguing that the best way to undermine communist regimes is to open them up to outside goods, exchanges of people and ideas. It worked with the Soviet empire...
...Even if they don't exercise regularly, people who manage to avoid overeating and thereby gaining weight in middle age are much less likely to develop heart disease and diabetes later in life...
...Southern Center for Human Rights. Such a reaction "enhances the chance they'll return to crime," he warns. Civil libertarians contend that notification laws are unconstitutional and have the effect of illegally keeping people in custody after they have served their sentences. However, such arguments carry little weight with people like relatives of the Heatons whose determination is that it must never happen again...
...dogs set upon it. The hunters cheer; then one of them cuts open the cub's back, reaches into its body and pulls out the goal of all the butchery: the bear's gallbladder. He grins and holds up the bloody organ as if it were worth its weight in gold. Which...
...worry."' It was bad advice. When the infant was 12 days old, his parents rushed him to Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. His breathing was shallow; his eyes had rolled back. "I was frantic because I could see he was withering," she recalls. Doctors found the child's weight had slipped below 5 lbs. Their diagnosis: severe dehydration. Bradley was starving. A few days later, he suffered a stroke. Just how much damage it caused remains to be seen...