Word: shriveled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What about the behemoths who get out? "Most of them just shrivel up on the streets," says Lammers, who has 16-in. biceps and benches 325 lbs. Deputy superintendent Lev Baldwin thinks it's unfair to single out weight lifting as criminal empowerment. "What's the difference," he asks, "between allowing them to get big muscles or letting them do aerobics so they can snatch purses and run faster?" The inmates themselves chuckle at the notion that biceps are a crook's best friends. Says prisoner Philip Shaw, 31, who resorts to 1,000 push-ups a day when...
...been that if the cable companies didn't pay, and couldn't show Saturday Night Live or 60 Minutes anymore, their customers would rebel. The cables' negotiating threat has been that if they stopped putting SNL and 60 Minutes on cable, the networks'audiences and revenues would instantly shrivel...
...California as well as in Washington and Oregon, where phylloxeras have also been spotted, the lice feed on roots as deep as 6 ft. beneath the soil, leaving them susceptible to soil fungus and other infections. Roots under attack become swollen and deformed; eventually the vine and its grapes shrivel and die. Says Ed Weber, a Napa County viticultural adviser: "It looks like someone took a blowtorch to them...
...winter is now for kids who like to watch TV in a movie theater, summer is not necessarily for grownups. Social issues, which rarely have an exalted place in Hollywood, shrivel in the summer. Last summer's "serious" hit, Boyz N the Hood, made a lot of money on a weenie budget but, judging from recent events, didn't have much impact on the residents of South Central Los Angeles, where the film was set and shot. Says Disney's movie boss Jeffrey Katzenberg: "This is a time of trouble and concern, yet I am also optimistic. Hollywood can make...
...state's 32.5 million acres of forest continue to shrivel. In the north, loggers blame environmentalists for "locking up" ancient forests by suing to ! protect the spotted owl and otherwise halt timbering, but with 90% of the original stands of redwood and Douglas fir already cut, loggers really have only themselves to blame. Says Richard Wilson, newly appointed head of the department of forestry and fire protection: "The loggers put money into buying more old growth rather than regrowing cut forests, and the trees are not there to feed the mills." To maximize short-term profits, many companies...