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...even a healthy economy produces a surplus of losers among factory workers and middle managers alike. Investment is rising, and every week the stock market strains its own altimeter. Yet since 1991 some 2.5 million workers have lost jobs in corporate restructurings. Most have found new ones, but with thinner paychecks. Last week the Labor Department reported that wages and benefits in 1995 rose just 2.8%, the slowest pace in at least 15 years and scarcely enough to keep pace with inflation. One big reason: layoffs and other cost-cutting moves kept workers in line and their paycheck demands...
Steiner-Adair identified "weightism" as a form of prejudice "which gives a girl the message that being thinner is more important than anything else about...
That's when the Harvard men's basketball team locks horns with Dartmouth in Hanover. The Big Green won the last meeting between the two schools in early December, 70-61, and another Crimson loss would put the team's hopes for an Ivy League title on thinner...
...AVANTI CONDOMS The first such prophylactic made of polyurethane is 50% thinner than the latex condoms that dominate the market--and much better at conducting heat. It is also a godsend to those allergic to latex. Avanti may also be safer. It can withstand some lubricants that are known to leave perforations in latex...
...cream at Baskin Robbins is thinner than the homemade variety at some of the other stores. But the great advantage of Baskin Robbins is its predictability. From Southern California to Northern Maine, you know what you're going to get from the 31 flavors. And you know your favorite flavor's always going to be there waiting...