Word: hefting
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...year-old Georgi, a bearded, august professor, might seem like an unlikely feminist. But if anyone has the heft to make change, he does. The physicist learned his scientific ABCs at the College from Nobel Prize-winner Julian Schwinger, won renown in the lab, and eventually assumed the chairmanship of Harvard’s physics department...
...writer's original articles; too much indulgence in personal reminiscence, and the result can be cloying and sentimental. But in Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution, Roy Rowan gets the ingredients just right, providing an account that has both factual heft and robust flavor...
...more than a children's TV show called Adventures with Kanga Roddy. Chinese firms today still aren't rich enough to buy top-flight companies, but they do have money to spend. Lenovo earned $135 million in its last fiscal year on revenues of $3 billion, giving it the heft and confidence to believe that it's ready to compete on an even larger scale...
...story illustrates much about the man Indonesians overwhelmingly chose to lead them: his undoubted intellectual heft?Yudhoyono's personal library contains 13,000 volumes?and a discipline that allowed him to finish and defend a doctoral thesis in the middle of a presidential campaign. Those were qualities Yudhoyono downplayed on the stump, where he touted a decisiveness honed through a 29-year military career. Unlike the incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri, Yudhoyono told voters, he wouldn't shy from tough decisions to tackle the country's social and economic woes...
...rate of success in using that heft to neutralize the Crimson front seven should dictate the pace of the Holy Cross offense. If Harvard’s linemen, anchored by veteran defensive tackles Matt McBurney and Coesen Ngwun, should gain the upperhand, as they did last year, the Crusaders will likely face a mounting deficit and need to fall back on a frantic—and rarely effective—pass-always offense. The Crimson front four, tipping the scales at 252 lbs., on average—a full 35 lbs. lighter than their adversaries—will rely...