Word: midpoints
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...unsafe cars. If there were no mandatory standards set by Government, companies willing to spend hard cash on antipollution and safety gear would lose orders to competitors that refused to make those social investments; the callous companies would have lower costs. The nation desperately needs to find a sensible midpoint between too much regulation and too little...
...helped recruit him for the job-and who was his once and, he hoped, future lover-is murdered because she is a witness to a key kidnaping. But the emotion this event releases in Moses gives the film an honest weight that is not burdensome or pretentious. At this midpoint, the production becomes serious without turning sober and without slackening its strong pace...
...emotional cycle and a 33-day mental cycle. Every human is likely to perform well in the up phases of cycles, and poorly in the down or recharging phases. But the most vulnerable day, known as the critical, zero or switch-point day, comes in the midpoint of each cycle, when a person is changing phases. Things are very likely to go wrong on a "double critical" day, when two cycles are at midpoint. A "triple critical," which practitioners say occurs about once a year, holds terror for all believers...
...Socialists that Party Secretary Berlinguer proposed in 1973. Although nine parties in all are fighting for parliamentary seats-they range from the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano on the far right to the new and strident Proletarian Democrats on the extreme left-the five-week election campaign at its midpoint has narrowed down to a two-party race...
...Crimson started strong and held a three-point lead several times in the first half. However, in the late stages of the first stanza, the Cliffe Cagers tired and had to retreat to the locker room at the contest's midpoint trailing...