Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women out there who are beaten black and blue by their husbands or the teenage girls who are sold into prostitution?" There is of course a sense in which it is legitimate to challenge any academic by saying that his or her work is irrelevant to the crushing weight of misery in the world; but singling out a professor of Black history and telling him that he should look after poor Blacks looks a lot like discrimination...
Although Harvard's financial problems are grave, administrators say the situation could be worse. While some universities face astronomical maintenance costs in addition to large budget deficits, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is not burdened with the additional weight of extensive building renovation expenses, they...
...five cracked ribs and a punctured lung. Going to the Games, said the experts, was clearly not an option. "I just wondered if I'd ever feel normal again," recalls Kline. But the next six weeks brought her first halting steps, and two weeks later she began intensive weight lifting and aerobic training. Six months more and she was up to her earlier form as the two-time overall U.S. women's champion. Kline is the only American to have won an Olympic slot in five different speed-skating events...
Such practices are not confined to one company. Women have been fired form their jobs for reasons ranging from weight gain to refusal to wear make-up. Is it any wonder that many women think something is so wrong with the female body that cosmetic surgery has become the norm...
Peckham is being forced to shuffle his normal line-up in order to compete, meaning some wrestlers will be moving out of their normal weight class, while other, rarely used wrestlers will be getting some unexpected starts...