Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wendy's lean burger never made it past the company's taste testers, but its double cheeseburger is selling well; in August the chain plans to unveil a Big Bacon Classic in new ads featuring portly founder Dave Thomas. Burger King, which saw its Weight Watchers line of meals flop, has enlarged its fish sandwich 45% and rechristened it "the Big Fish." Kentucky Fried Chicken, after a disastrous experience with skin-free chicken, is having far more success with Popcorn Chicken II, a breaded, calorie-packed, dark-meat appetizer...
Huge as American academe is, it has few public intellectuals -- men or women ( whose views carry weight with general readers off-campus. Near the top of any list of such people is a tall, elegantly tailored, 57-year-old American of Palestinian descent who for the past 30 years has taught English and comparative literature at Columbia University in New York City: Edward Said...
...added hardship, they are not in the pages of this memoir, which Ashe started writing last June. He had endured greater pressures. "Race has always been my biggest burden," he writes. "Having to live as a minority in America. Even now it continues to feel like an extra weight tied around...
...higher weight classes, wrestlers are more powerful," Fronhofer says. "I grew, and my style had to change...
...addition to a third-place finish in the Coast Guard tournament, Fronhofer won his weight class at the Millersville University tourney and became the first Harvard wrestler in over 50--count'em, 50--years to win an Eastern title...