Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...purpose was to "reaffirm clearly and explicitly our own position against discrimination in the University," she said, and the motion was timed to provide a "counter-weight to the implicit endorsement of General [Colin L.] Powell's stance by the University." Powell, who chairs the Joint Chiefs of Staff and has defended the military's policy on gays, is Harvard's Commencement speaker this year...
...didn't take long for the vultures to get wind of the financial collapse of Nutri/System. Heavy debt forced the diet center to close its headquarters and 283 company-owned weight-loss clinics. As Nutri/System struggled to find a buyer, its competitors ran ads to lure the company's customers. Jenny Craig offered to sign up abandoned calorie counters at "no additional service fee," while stressing that it is "a debt-free, $500 million company." Weight Watchers told Nutri/System customers, "Don't worry." At week's end Heico Acquisitions of Chicago tentatively agreed to manage the firm while seeking...
Many more women than men were dissatisfied with their weight. According to the study, 70 percent of women want to lose weight, while only 20 percent of men were unhappy. The dissatisfied men were evenly split between wanting to lose or to gain weight...
...look effortless. He was among the greatest of a towering generation that included Olivier, Richardson and Gielgud; she is incomparably the finest actor, male or female, in the English-speaking world today. Lynn is a skillful, earthbound performer, at home in both classics and sitcoms, if best remembered for Weight Watchers commercials. Born to another name, she would be the mainspring of family pride. In her tribe, she is an afterthought...
...blame on Bill Clinton; after all, the president is a man of his generation. Beginning with the baby-bloomers, Americans have developed a very different set of assumptions about the relative weight of debate and action. Holdovers from the generation before Clinton's knew a United States that still had a vibrant manufacturing sector; they remember an America that made things. For the baby boomers, the service sector represents the essence of the country's productive life. And in a service culture, the divide between thought and action is much less clear. The closest many people of Clinton...