Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bought off the rack from Dillard's, a down-home Little Rock department store. In his casual wear, Clinton favors jeans and khakis, not even bothering to follow his generation in its mid-life enthusiasm for the Gap and Banana Republic. The President-elect's constant battles with his weight might influence fashion were not Levi's already hitting it big with Dockers, which are cut with a baby boomer's sagging physique in mind. "Bill Clinton is half hip and half hick," explains Steve Rabinowitz, one of the traveling staff members on the campaign plane. "You want to write...
...flanked by his daughter Chelsea (who had just boarded the plane) and Hillary, came down the ramp onto the tarmac in Little Rock. A practiced observer would recognize that there was something altered in Clinton's stride, perhaps more than just an effect of fatigue. He put his full weight into every step, as if to underline the gravity of the moment and the heavy burdens he expected soon to bear...
...hard about governing. A small cadre led by campaign chairman Mickey Kantor, a Los Angeles lawyer, has been working secretly for eight weeks. In Washington the Democratic Leadership Council has been pondering policy and structural questions for even longer, and Clinton's aides expect its conclusions will carry special weight. Clinton helped found and was once chairman of the group, a collection of centrist Democrats whose views the President-elect has often echoed. The council's thoughts -- and those of its think tank, the Progressive Policy Institute -- will be presented to Clinton later this week, and may offer the best...
Students chooses houses for all sorts of reasons--the quality of the pianos, the lighting, the size of windows, the location. But it would be wrong to ignore the place house character plays in student's decisions. No matter how little weight we give the issue, it is still the only factor in the housing differences that we have any control over. Harvard can't move the Quad closer to campus and it can't make the rooms in Winthrop any bigger...
...their risk of heart disease," says Dr. Millicent Higgins, associate director of epidemiology and biometry at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. She recommends that women have their blood pressure checked and treated if it is found to be high, eat diets low in fat, exercise, lose excess weight and stop smoking. But most important of all, she says, is that "women need to be aware that they can have heart attacks...