Yet because anti-trans-fat researchers have done a great job of public relations, their preferences are allowed to trump common sense and plain old goodwill toward fellow human beings.

FORBES: The Government That Stole Christmas

But despite calls for his head, Sir Martin not only hung on to his job, but negotiated himself a fat compensation package for rescuing a company he had almost killed.

ECONOMIST: Face value

That will change when getting congealed fat off pans stops being someone else's job.

ECONOMIST: Domestic labour

Marsh handed the job to Zurich after dunning it for a fat fee, Spitzer alleges.

FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas

The group listened intently as one of the executives launched into an unflattering tale of how the employee had used the executive's perfectly good job offer as a bargaining chip for a fat buyback.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In a crummy job market the incentive is to stay put and live off the fat of the government.

FORBES: Fraud And Disability Equal A Multibillion Dollar Black Hole For Taxpayers

Another dilemma: Should I defend my original column (" Fat, florid, farcical") or the imaginary Microsoft suck-up job that Dvorak thinks I wrote and somewhat justifiably tees off on?

FORBES: Dvorak is wrong

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are considered front-runners for the top job handling Facebook's trophy IPO, and the biggest chunk of a fat fee pot.

WSJ: What's News

The lower down they are on practically any pecking order job prestige, income, education, background the more likely people are to be fat and unfit, and to drink too much.

ECONOMIST: Public health