Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have not improved that a letter will get from Boston to Miami in less time than the sender could drive it there. Performance on first-class mail delivery was at a five-year low in 1988, and complaints about late mail rose 35% last summer. For the workers, automation, heavier mail loads (especially during the Christmas rush) and outside competition have turned a once cushy job into a form of boot camp in eight-hour shifts...
...heavyweight, Dwight Cooper pinned his WPI opponent, but fell to UNH, 6-4. Replacing Cooper against NYU, Rich Sofield pulled out a tie against a much-heavier opponent...
...Lombardi mold. In his first team meeting in 1985, he looked around and saw players slouching in their seats. He ordered them in no uncertain terms to sit at attention from that point on. Says senior defensive tackle Jeff Alm, who is almost 1 ft. taller and 120 lbs. heavier than Holtz: "He's not the biggest guy in the world, but he seems to possess a lot of power." Last month a furious Holtz told the team he would resign if they ever fought again with opposing players, as they did before their game against U.S.C. There...
...National School Safety Center at California's Pepperdine University. The center says 3 million crimes a year occur on school grounds, with 183,590 injuries reported in 1987. Another study estimates that on a typical day at least 100,000 U.S. pupils carry guns, and the firepower is getting heavier...
...much more than ten. The grace, the spontaneity of his pen line -- rushing over the paper as though impelled by the lightest inflection of thought, quick but always controlled, strengthened by brown washes that confirm its structure -- does not always translate to the paintings and frescoes, where it seems heavier and overdetermined. But with Giulio, design and invention were inseparable, and their combination is worn so lightly that one may not realize how difficult were the problems he set for himself. How do you create long processional friezes of figures based on a Roman triumph, as in the Stucco Room...