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Word: weightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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PERHAPS a victorious referendum would have failed to modify our relationship with the United States. Maybe Puerto Ricans felt that constitutional weight was unnecessary to remind them of their culture and their sense of national identity. Yet the opportunity to send a message to Congress that their ties to the United States are not incompatible with pride for their culture and Hispanic-Caribbean origins was lost...

Author: By Tere Riera-carrion, | Title: A Campaign of Fear | 12/14/1991 | See Source »

...line threw its weight on the ice late in the first period, and did its job: increasing penalties applying more hits, and skating less...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, | Title: Brown Shocks Icemen at Home For First Time in a Decade, 6-5 | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...before: an unrelenting parade of vengeful spouses, greed, infidelity, callousness and other mental cruelties. "You're bitter, you're needy, and you're gonna poison whatever and whoever you come in contact with!" shouts a husband at the wife he wants to leave because she has gained too much weight. (She actually looks pretty good.) A rich couple bickers over custody of sterling silver soup tureens and antique snuffboxes, until a stenographer -- who is struggling to pay her son's medical bills -- blows up: "You have no idea what it's like to live in this city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divorce, Bochco-Style | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

...supposedly linked to an increased risk of heart attack. Among the suspected culprits: feeling hostile or stressed; drinking too much coffee; living with a smoker; being exposed to car exhaust; having high levels of the kidney protein renin; being bald; and having a body shape that puts excess weight around the belly rather than the hips and thighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Road to Heart Attacks | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

...Harvard Alumni Office will keep a master list of student and alumni information: age, height, weight, gender, sexual orientation, estimated (or in the case of current students, potential) income. People from all over the country, all over the world will call the office. For a modest fee, they will receive the number of a promising candidate. Harvard affiliates who are married or morally opposed to matchmaking services could, also for a small fee, remove their names from the list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $ome $imple $ugge$tion$ | 11/21/1991 | See Source »

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