Word: size
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nancy Reagan struggled in her memoirs to explain why some people had objected to her "borrowing" designer dresses while she was First Lady. "One reason may be that some women aren't all that crazy about a woman who wears a size 4, and who seems to have no trouble staying slim," Mrs. Reagan wrote. The IRS has a more plausible explanation that has nothing to do with weight envy: the clothes and jewelry -- over $1 million worth -- may be considered taxable income...
...there is more to the famous and no longer hypothetical "German question" than that. Neither the population nor the size of a united Germany would necessarily result in instability; it is not as though the two countries would attain critical mass if they were fused. Rather, the X factor in the debate, largely unmentionable among statesmen but deeply felt among their constituents, concerns the crimes and punishment of the German nation. Many Europeans, including most Soviets, would prefer to let the next generation, or even the one after that, test fully the proposition that 70 years of German expansionism, culminating...
...haggles over the final details in a planned $2 billion fundraising drive, Bok and other top administrators say they are trying to steer Harvard toward the future. They want to broaden the University's international focus, to strengthen undergraduate education, to maintain Harvard's infrastructure and to bolster the size of the faculty...
First-year students could still choose their rooming blocks, so they would not be entirely isolated in their new houses. As added consolation, the administration should increase the maximum size of rooming blocks to 20 and allow greater flexibility in transfers among houses...
...addition, the editors seem to feel that stereotypes play the major role in a student's decision to live in a particular house. They ignore the differences in special facilities, location, room size and architecture...