• Being too fat to work.

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  • If unbundling fees means firms having to pay a fat retainer for advisory work, so be it.

    ECONOMIST: Investment-banking fees

  • Now both these ventures are in trouble, while EADS's rival, Boeing, is sitting more comfortably on a fat cushion of defence work.

    ECONOMIST: EADS and America

  • The way the stuff has always been tested and the way it seems to work best is with, I'm sorry to say, a reduced fat diet in order for it to work properly.

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  • Then, carefully work apart several of the fat rhizomes and their roots.

    WSJ: In the Garden, Divide and Multiply: Weekend Gardener

  • So retro foods -- which are often minimally processed, easy to eat, and so low in calories and fat they're almost guaranteed to work -- appeal to them, Lempert adds.

    CNN: Retro diet tricks that work

  • The Imperial College London research - which was part-funded by food giant Nestle - also suggested they could change fat digestion but dieticians said this would work only for relatively small numbers of people.

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  • Finally, as our tale draws closer to its conclusion, we find that the residents of the kingdom of Fairyland at Foggy Bottom have now become so fat and lazy that no one wants to work any more, even if there was a way to plant and harvest a crop.

    FORBES: Barry's Fairyland at Foggy Bottom

  • As long as those who have bad habits are not compromising the quality of health care being provided on hospital ground, then let's not exclude smoking nurses, fat physical therapists, and scuba diving pharmacists from work.

    CNN: Barring smokers from hospital jobs unfair

  • It is not nearly as powerful as current cholesterol drugs like Merck's Zocor and Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Lipitor, which work by preventing the liver from turning fat into cholesterol.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Risk management consultants say the models that banks use to predict the risks of their exposures don't work in these so-called "fat-tail" events, shocks that move otherwise predictable swings outside the parameters of clever computer programs and their keepers.

    FORBES

  • Given by itself, it is less powerful than current cholesterol drugs like Merck's Zocor and Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Lipitor, which work by preventing the liver from turning fat into cholesterol.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • One day, says McDaniel, his GentleWaves device may even be shown to spur hair growth and, if it can be made to work in reverse, stall the growth of fat or cancer cells.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "When the Department for Energy and Climate Change increases its headcount, for example - as it has done every quarter over the past year - that only serves to undo the good work being done elsewhere to clean away unnecessary fat in the arteries of government, " it said.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • The medicines work by affecting molecular switches that control the entry of sugar and fat into cells.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • They do know that it seems to work by speeding up the breakdown of triglycerides, a type of fat.

    CNN: Gene mutation protects against milk shakes and other fatty fare

  • The work began with a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study fat in African green monkeys from St.

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  • All of these drugs work by inhibiting the same liver enzyme, thereby preventing the liver from turning fat into cholesterol.

    FORBES: Pfizer Must Lose This Battle

  • Liban Egal, a Somali entrepreneur who grew up in Baltimore in America, has started work with an American-trained chemist to produce bio-diesel from animal fat, which the cattle-herding Somalis normally have in abundance, along with used oil and chemicals.

    ECONOMIST: Somalia

  • During his lifetime he managed to publish seven novels and do some documentary work for British TV (you can see him in one of them as a Fat Man on a Beach, first broadcast shortly after Johnson killed himself).

    FORBES: On Jonathan Coe: Give Me 27 Films and I'll Show You the Man

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