Word: hefted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pups can weigh as much as a quarter of their mother's heft--the equivalent of a 100-lb. woman giving birth to a 25-lb. baby...
...notices that the news service has been up since February 24," says Thomas W. Heft, a senior UNIX systems programmer...
...curse of Elton John's music is that every song on every album has eyes to be a hit single. These are super-productions, aural Busby Berkeley numbers, ascending an oratorical mountain to the sky-rocketing crescendo. And, on Made in England, they sound swell; there's heft and meaning in the songs--no throwaways. "Since I've been sober I've made three albums, and this is the best," he says. "Getting adjusted to a new way of life takes time. You don't go from 16 years of taking drugs to instant tranquillity...
...bear in amassing 43 career victories over nine years. Although Tomba competes only in slalom and giant-slalom races--he does not ski the downhill, super-giant slalom or combined races, the other three ingredients in World Cup competition--he has made his two events a near monopoly. His heft helps, no doubt, but championship form comes more from his total focus on building speed and calculating the tightest turns around the gates. ``He doesn't make the mistakes he used to, like leaning back on his skis,'' says Roberto Della Torre, deputy editor of the Italian monthly Sciare. ``Compared...
...American audiences, is available to anyone who visits the United States Holocaust Memorial. The information embarrasses us; it shames us. It announces to all Americans the awesome burden our nation shoulders for its paltry response to a great crime. The Memorial reminds us of the sheer heft of memory...