Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weight problem? You can enroll in Weight Watchers, share your pain on Oprah, or now, thanks to the ever expanding rights of victims, phone Uncle Sam. You won't lose those extra pounds overnight, or get back your self- esteem. But you could get a wad of cash or that job you've been wanting...
...definition of what constitutes actionable fatness is, well, very broad. To be covered, it is best to be twice the normal weight for your height -- although that's not hard and fast -- have little prospect of voluntarily shedding the weight, and have been that way long enough that it "substantially limits a major life activity or is regarded as so doing...
...inquisitor. But his Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the Roman Inquisition's latest incarnation, and as the Catholic Church's chief enforcer of dogma, the Cardinal stands in direct succession to the persecutors of Galileo and the compilers of the index of banned books. The weight of history is borne in the attention Ratzinger receives. His staff, which includes some of the church's brightest men, is sensitive to every small sign of pleasure or displeasure -- a subtle glance, a pause, a bland word that has accrued special meaning over years. When he gets to his office...
Another student questioned the method by which the audit was being conducted:by weight of the food wasted. "A potato wouldcount the same as a piece of chicken," he said...
...When do you freak out...and walk into the middle of the street and start tearing at your hair," Kushner asked. "Everyday life has this incredible weight and that never happens...