The gamble here is whether the fat times will continue for the flyboys.
Whether slim or fat, a person leading a sedentary lifestyle has similar chances of dying young to a smoker.
"Whether it was squeezing the fat out of NatWest or not overpaying for silly deals in America, which every Brit bank seems to do, Goodwin has always managed to deliver, " says Michael Denny, the chairman of Northern Ventures Managers, a venture-capital firm.
It does not turn on whether Mr Portillo can really trim the fat he says he has found in the running costs of government, welfare fraud and so on.
There is ferment in U.S. academia over whether University Inc. is just one more fat, inefficient, overpriced sector waiting to be plucked by foreign rivals.
No, not in the sense of whether Google is now going to have to do some serious surgery to Android, or whether Microsoft and Apple are going to wax fat off royalties.
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Arriving just after breakfast, our first stop was at the Hunger Analyzer station, where DoCoMo reps were on hand with a Bluetooth accessory that measures acetone levels, sending results to an app that determines not only if it's time for you to eat, but also whether or not your body is in a good position to burn fat with exercise.
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"It is uncertain whether the testing lab goofed....But 2 grams of trans fat is quite a big difference, " a spokesman from a food and nutrition lobby group was quoted as saying in a media report.
Dr David Haslam, of the National Obesity Forum, said the finding cast new doubt on the merits of Body Mass Index (BMI) as a way to assess whether somebody was unhealthily overweight, as it did not differentiate between different types of fat.
"In other words, whether you build a business up over 30 years and then dispose of all or part of it, or whether you buy a bunch of shares at 0900 and then sell them at a fat profit at 1000, you'll now pay exactly the same 18% rate of tax, " said Robert Peston, the BBC's business editor.
Saturated fats are the most dangerous ones, she says, and whether they know it or not, most Americans have benefited from less of this type of fat in food.
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