Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like many women, Nancy Cort longed to be the size she was at age 18 -- size 8, to be precise -- 28 years and dozens of pounds ago. The Westport, Conn., schoolteacher enrolled in a weight-loss program, dropped 35 lbs. and then, with just 15 lbs. more to go, decided to call a halt to her dieting. "I thought about what I could maintain, what I could be successful at," says Cort. "Sure, I'd like to be a size 8, but then I would have to exercise more." Her conclusion: "I'm content being a size...
...strike a balance between dealing more with Yeltsin and other republic leaders on economic affairs while continuing to negotiate with Gorbachev on foreign policy. That is a tricky job, and there is no assurance the West will get it right, but Yeltsin has simply put on too much political weight to be ignored. In March he could not get Secretary of State James Baker, who was visiting Moscow, to come to his office for a private meeting; Baker did not want to give Gorbachev's rival special treatment. Now the doors of the White House are about to swing open...
...officers listed as executives. Chamorro's government is attempting to evict Ortega and a handful of other Sandinista squatters from their mansions. But for the most part, it has decided to ignore "la pinata." Says Antonio Lacayo, Chamorro's right-hand man: "In this country, political reality has more weight than...
Johnny Carson and Ted Koppel have gone to bed and so has the Ziploc talking finger. But late night is when TV's hucksters really get humming. Amazing baldness cures and miracle weight-loss plans. Kitchen tools and anticellulite treatments. Self-help courses and get-rich-quick schemes. Stick around: you'll learn all about Citrus Miracle, a spray cleaner made from "100% natural oranges," able to wipe out everything from oven grease to carpet stains. Or share a few teary minutes with Richard Simmons as he travels the country getting testimonials from converts to his Deal-a-Meal diet...
Nowhere is the President's new openness more evident than in his self- conscious attitude toward his health. Instead of "keeping it all in," as he did with a bleeding ulcer in 1960, Bush provides an almost daily commentary on his sleeping and eating habits, weight, morale and energy level. Though some might think it politically wiser to omit any mention of presidential maladies or medications, particularly with Dan Quayle as Vice President, Bush apparently does not. At a horseshoe throw last week on the South Lawn, Bush appeared in a T shirt featuring the milking end of a dead...