Word: fatter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three weeks ago, Ford sent letters soliciting the opinions of nearly 6,000 G.O.P. delegates, party leaders and officeholders. A week later, two dozen fatter letters went out from the White House with detailed legal, medical and financial questionnaires to an array of possibilities, ranging from Northeastern Liberal Elliot Richardson to Texas Conservative John Connally. The two dozen receiving the bulky envelopes were officially under presidential consideration...
Most businessmen are still basking in the bright glow of second-quarter gains. Leading the earnings parade of manufacturers were the automakers, who were helped by price boosts on the 1976s and an unforeseen rush by buyers to larger, option-filled models that return a fatter profit than smaller cars. General Motors and Chrysler both announced record earnings for the period, $909 million and $155 million respectively; G.M., after paying its stockholders 60? a share in March, will move its third-quarter dividend back up to 85?. Ford's earnings quadrupled over the same period last year...
...some 3,900 city workers were finally back at work - and, though they had gone on strike for an extra $5.5 million, they had not won a penny. It was the most dramatic setback to date for the nation's powerful municipal unions, which have been demanding ever fatter wage boosts and thus helping to drive U.S. cities to the edge of bankruptcy. It was the citizenry that finally rebelled against the well-paid rank and file (street sweepers are currently making as much...
...held up fairly well. Now, with sales rebounding, the margins translate into zooming total profits. In addition, output per man-hour in nonfarm industries is rising nearly as fast as labor costs. That may change as more workers are hired and wages rise, but for the moment it means fatter profits. Most important, consumers are now buying the autos, appliances, clothes and other products they passed by during the recession...
Anorexics have a distorted sense of their own body size, seeing themselves as much fatter than they actually are, and they have extreme goals for the size they consider ideal. They are obsessed with nutrition and food. They love to prepare meals, watch others eat, and work on nutrition projects for school. They go on eating binges occasionally, but will secretly induce vomiting afterwards. "One sub-group," Dr. George Tully, an endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, says, "will eat next to nothing for a long time, then gorge a jar of mayonnaise or pickle juice--very unappetizing-sounding orgies...