Word: squatted
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...sprawling Los Angeles Unified School District, where nearly half of the 711,000 students speak limited English, Hobart, a squat stucco campus surrounded by a chain-link fence, serves 2,200 children. More than three-quarters are Latino, nearly a fifth are Korean--and 92% are poor enough to qualify for free lunch. A third of Hobart's teachers lack certification. A few weeks ago, the school was locked down at midday when a taxi driver was shot nearby...
...Downstairs, the weight room features Icarian free weight equipment, two bench presses, an incline press, a squat rack, a cable crossover jungle gym, free weights by Jade, several selectorized machines and other pieces of equipment...
...would provide training and equipment. PRESIDENT CLINTON approved the plan, and the team should have been off and running last year. In fact, it never left the gate: despite CIA enthusiasm, the Pakistanis dragged their feet and never got beyond basic training. "They didn't do squat," says an Administration official close to the operation. Now the U.S. suspects that the Pakistanis never intended to go after bin Laden...
...capri pants: Unless you've got supermodel-lengthy legs, capris make most girls look squat and dumpy at best. That or like they've just raided the Little Miss section of their local department store. In any case, why anyone would want to create a convincing optical illusion that her legs are only three-quarters their real length is a real mystery to Candie...