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Word: weightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there must be a counter-weight to this immense power. The striker replacement bill would destroy the delicate balance, depriving businesses of their only defense against unreasonable union demands. Although those on strike lose wages, businesses would be hurt even more. Their business would grind to a halt, because, in many cases, it is nearly impossible to hire temporary replacements...

Author: By George Wang, | Title: Labor Bills: Paved With Good Intentions | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

...bizarre stratagems men and women have cooked up to reduce weight without cutting back on food, this latest one takes the cake. It's a pill that makes you thinner not by suppressing appetite or speeding up metabolism but by preventing fat from entering the bloodstream (and the hips, the belly and the buttocks), one greasy molecule at a time. Liz Smith, the syndicated gossip columnist, calls it the new "dream drug." The Times of London, which should know better, pronounced it a "pain-free pill that allows us to stay slim for life while eating what we like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cake Eater's Dream? | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...twice as much as control subjects, who were on the same moderate eating regime but were given a placebo. The group taking the orlistat did experience minor but unpleasant side effects, including greasier stools and some diarrhea. It is not known how many of those people gained back the weight they had lost as soon as the trial was over. An ambitious two-year study, involving 4,000 subjects from Europe and the U.S., is under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cake Eater's Dream? | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...approval and goes on sale -- by prescription. Researchers warn that it has proved effective only when accompanied by significant changes in diet and exercise and just for a few months. It remains to be seen whether patients will have to stay on the drug indefinitely to maintain their weight loss, and whether some will undo the drug's modest benefits by eating more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cake Eater's Dream? | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

Saddam Hussein, at least as he is caricatured in Western demonology, is the perfect comic-book villain for Jeffrey Archer's latest summer-weight thriller. ) What's more, the Iraqi strongman has cooked up a fiendish scheme to humiliate the Great Satan: steal the Declaration of Independence from its place in the U.S. National Archives, and burn it on July 4, 1993, in Baghdad's Victory Square. Horrors! Curses! Zounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damp Fireworks | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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