Word: heavyweight
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Butt also noted that competing against heavyweight teams affected the team's performance in the regatta. "Whenever you give up 30 pounds to the other team, it's going to be tough," he said...
Butt said there was no way to tell if Harvard would send either a lightweight or heavyweight crew to the regatta next summer. "Our participation depends on winning either the Eastern Sprints Championship or the [Intercollegiate Rowing] Championship," he said...
Major loyalists trooped before the TV cameras to commend the Prime Minister's bold initiative. Said Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke: "I entirely support the Prime Minister's sensible decision to bring forward the date of the leadership election. He has my total support." Foreign Secretary and party heavyweight Douglas Hurd, who chose last week to announce his retirement from the Cabinet, also endorsed Major...
...being mentioned as possibilities. They stand little chance, but could serve as a stalking-horse for a more viable candidate, such as Heseltine or Portillo. If Major fails to win hands down on the first ballot, he will be judged to have lost the confidence of the party, and heavyweight candidates will vault into the ring for the second round...
...Southern Baptists can probably count on most blacks to take the apology in good faith. African Americans are by nature a forgiving people, says Lincoln. So much so that many of them, including several prominent Baptist ministers in Harlem, threw a lavish ceremony last week to welcome ex-heavyweight champion Mike Tyson home from prison, despite howls of outrage from black feminists who charged that the much hyped ceremony was tantamount to enshrining brutality toward women. If blacks harbor such forbearance for a convicted rapist who has yet to repent his crime, it stands to reason that they will forgive...