Friday, Aug 11, 2017
The Daily
The New York Times
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🗓️ 11 August 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:25.6 | From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. |
| 0:33.3 | This is the day. |
| 0:36.6 | Today, the corporate crisis was obvious. |
| 0:42.4 | The country's best known weight loss company realized that people no longer wanted to talk |
| 0:48.2 | about losing weight. |
| 0:50.2 | The evolution of American culture through the saga of Weight Watchers. |
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