Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Consider the case of Tenita Deal, a flight attendant at American Airlines. A former dancer, she has a normal weight for her age and height according to accepted medical and nutritional standards. Yet in 1991, she was forced to file a suit against her employers because they gave her an ultimatum: lose weight or lose your...
...weight they wanted was abnormally low for a woman of her age (50), and experts say that too low a body weight in middle age increases the risk of osteoporosis. More importantly, there was absolutely no relationship between weight and job qualifications. Still, the airline insisted on weighing and imposing diets on not only Deal but on all the flight attendants...
Jeffrey Williamson said he plans to use his free time to lose weight, cook, go to the movies and "sleep for more than five-and-a-half hours every night...
...need for absolute goodies and absolute baddies runs deep in us, but it drags history into propaganda and denies the humanity of the dead: their sins, their virtues, their failures. To preserve complexity, and not flatten it under the weight of anachronistic moralizing, is part of the historian's task...
Syrita had tried repeatedly to warn Antwan of illicit goings-on at the playground. But such warnings carry little weight for a kid growing up on society's margin. Antwan lives in a storefront apartment just blocks from the drug-saturated playground. His mother and grandmother survive on public assistance, and his mother is battling depression with medication and counseling. His father is long gone...