Word: hefting
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...Says Feltman: "Americans say, 'We used to worry about what Europe wants, but we can't figure it out. So we stopped worrying.'" But that is dangerous ground. Not worrying about what others think speaks to a splendid isolationism of the mind. Even if Europe doesn't have the heft it used to, the U.S. will find managing the rise of Asia's new powers much harder without help from the bulk of the most prosperous democracies. Even if the U.S. seems more and more like another planet to younger Europeans, the problems posed by Islamic radicalism and Iranian nuclear...
...world's GDP measured in purchasing-power parity. Then, large industrial economies had little need to consult the rest of the world. Today, the six largest economies outside the G-7?including Brazil, China, India and Russia?now account for 30% of global GDP. Yet China, despite its economic heft, has fewer votes at the IMF than any of the G-7 nations...
...speech of François Hollande, the party secretary - and, to complicate matters, her partner (they are not married) and the father of her four children. But while her colleagues were laying out their views on everything from the minimum wage to how to give the European Union more heft, Royal, who turns 53 this month, was seen on a ferry boat, on a live TV interview and at a posh portside restaurant. "As the leader of the race, it's not her job to bat around ideas with the challengers," explained Malek Boutih, a member of the party...
Given the tires' value, one feature that operators like about them is their heft. "At least they're rarely stolen," says Gregg Hoss, CEO of Hoss Equipment, a national mining-equipment company. "It'd be pretty tough to throw 7,500 lbs. of rubber into the back of a pickup." Just you wait...
...Mann's early films also needed performers with snazzier screen presence. These movies had the noir plots and attitude, but neither the actors to give the stories a fatalist heft nor the actresses beautiful and seductive enough to play a plausible femme fatale. In The Great Flamarion - a triangle drama in which a woman misuses the two men who desire her -Dan Duryea says of his wife, "Any guy who wouldn't fall for you is either a sucker or he's dead." Unfortunately, the wife is played by Mary Beth Hughes, who's pretty deficient in the allure category...