Word: heavier
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Catholic educators are proud that their institutions eschew the shopping- mall approach they see in public high schools, where students shop around for courses among endless electives. Their high schools routinely offer fewer electives and require a heavier load of basics than do inner-city public schools: four years of English; three years or more of math; three years of science, foreign language and social science; and at least one year of computer science. Students must show proficiency in a course before they can move up a grade. Period...
...research trip to the gulf region, derives his ideas in part from an earlier analysis he did of the impact of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. Soil stirred up by that conflict doubled the intensity and frequency of the shamal sandstorms. El-Baz believes that the much heavier bombing and widespread trench digging in the latest war produced the material for even more intense sandstorms, which will combine with oil mist and soot from the fires. He argues that the heat from the inferno has created a new high-pressure system, which might push the monsoon line farther...
...most cases, no laws are broken. The problem is especially acute in service industries, where employees meet the public. According to Esther Rothblum, a psychology professor at the University of Vermont, "If two people, one fat and one thin, walk into a company with the same qualifications, the heavier one will get a more negative reception...
...half to two packs a day "is equal to carrying 60 to 80 extra pounds in body weight." Smoking, which leads to 400,000 U.S. deaths a year, "is about the most dangerous thing a person can do," affirms Tausz. "I'd rather see someone be a few pounds heavier and a nonsmoker, than smoke and be skinny." No doctor would disagree, but try telling that to a teenage girl...
...major new commercial structure in five years -- and it is already mostly rented. Other skyscrapers, long mothballed, report 70% to 90% occupancy, evidence that the economy is reviving, diversifying and depending less on swings in oil prices. But Houston's vacancy rate is still a painful 25%, with even heavier vacancies in lower-quality buildings...