What shocked me, though, was how many women seemed to be lying about their height.
The latest figures are based on a 2011 telephone survey that asked adults their height and weight.
In crisp blue and yellow file folders, eligible bachelors are noted for their height, education, and job status.
The report said the pool amounts reached their height in 2009, the year the Saints won the Super Bowl.
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He arranged them carefully, put coins underneath some fruit to vary their height, and painted their structure and patterns.
Doctors call people obese if their weight in kilograms is more than 30 times bigger than their height in meters squared.
Since 2006 nine non-emergency ambulances have been outfitted to support bariatric patients, patients who weigh about 40kg more than would be recommended for their height.
At their height, these firms and their founders were as likely to be covered in the fashion and lifestyle sections as on the business pages.
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Such speech codes reached their height in the 1980s and 1990s, but they were defeated in federal and state court and came in for public ridicule.
"We have hung mirrors over the hatchery at a 45 degree angle so that everyone, no matter what their height, can see into the hatchery, " she said.
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All of the 96 women I interacted with listed their height as between 5-foot-1 and 5-foot-3, even though the average height of an American woman is 5-foot-4.
But some partisans of those Latin American monuments argue that their pedestals should be taken into account when calculating their height, and that the Swiebodzin statue's crown shouldn't count.
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They were then commanded to reduce their height by a factor of two (to 23km) for another three months, allowing them to obtain data at an even better resolution.
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Carlisle coach Alan Jones continues to hammer home the message that a high level of fitness is essential for all members of the team whatever their height or weight.
David West scored 13 points for the Pacers, who committed 21 turnovers that led to 32 points, negating their height advantage that loomed so large in their Game 1 victory.
As Caritas noted this week, even in 2008, when Mediterranean crossings were at their height, entries by sea into Italy anyway made up only a fifth of the estimated total.
We are not dumping stuff on the market, and we're not going to make stupid decisions, but there are things that we think have reached their height in the life cycle given rational pricing.
Of course, there are good reasons why the markets' fears of price swings in general might be smaller now than in late 2002, when, among other things, fears about the fragility of corporate America were at their height.
The studies measured the participants' body mass index (BMI), a ratio of their height and weight, but it wasn't able to take into account their body fat composition, or how much of their overall body weight was made up of fat versus muscle.
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Suddenly, it will be possible to not only track every customer, their height, weight and age, how long they looked at each item, what they started to buy but changed their mind, how long they stood in line, and a dizzying array of other variables.
The list includes buildings that have reached their full height, even if they are unfinished.
Rogue waves can suddenly top out at five times their average height.
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The people we studied were in their fifties, professionals at the height of their careers and earning potential.
All three men are described as white, in their 20s, of average height and had scarves covering their faces.
Always conscious of their difference in height, he was irritated by her rubbing it in.
The START II treaty and the framework we have already agreed to for START III could cut them by 80 percent from their Cold War height.
In Brazil, where roads are especially rough and flooding is frequent during heavy rain storms in large cities like Sao Paulo, their taller ride height is appreciated, as are the auspices of a go-anywhere adventurous lifestyle that owning one implies.
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Andrew Strauss's team are a fantastically drilled, very fit outfit playing at the height of their abilities.
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