Word: pounds
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...International Airport, for example, outbound passengers were required to show identification at every stage of the departure process, from curbside baggage check-in to final boarding. The Postal Service announced that it would not accept any first-class mail in California that weighed more than three-fourths of a pound. Jitters were everywhere. A lawyer on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco was briefly interrogated by the fbi because he bore a passing resemblance to a composite sketch of Unabomber and had been "acting suspicious," which appeared to mean wearing sunglasses throughout the flight...
...Moyers makes virtually no attempt to place the poet in a larger social context--to view poetry as a profession (or, perhaps more to the point, to analyze what it means that ours is a culture where it's all but impossible to be a professional poet). Ezra Pound once pointed out that history without economics is bunk. To which one might add that poetry without economics--without some sense of the ebb and flow of the megamercantile society surrounding the poet--is bunk too. Behind Moyers' many questions lurks one that goes unasked: Are we "celebrating" so hard because...
Critics say the appropriators may get their comeuppance on the House floor. Indeed, the committee got a taste of the battles to come last Friday, when the House killed the committee's funding for the Army museum -- a move that Livingston called "penny-wise and pound-foolish and meanspirited." This week G.O.P. freshmen will lead a fight to undo OPIC...
Three local police unions formed a picket line on Mass. Ave. in front of pound Hall yesterday to protest comments made earlier this year by Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who has said police officers are taught to lie on the witness stand...
Those two were the 134-pound Friedman and the 126-pound Dustin Denunzio. While neither grappler qualified for the NCAA's, both placed sixth, and only one other freshman in the conference placed in the qualifier...