Word: weighed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Citizens weigh in on taxes, gambling and false teeth...
...evidence that their Los Angeles colleague Richard Miller had turned over a bureau intelligence handbook to the Soviets. So Miller should be prosecuted, right? Well, in the world of espionage it is never that simple. For as long as there have been secret agents, officials have had to weigh two conflicting considerations: the importance of trying accused spies and the risk such trials pose to national security. In the view of intelligence agencies, courtroom disclosures can sometimes be as damaging as the original espionage. Says Joel Levine, a former federal prosecutor with spy-trial experience: "There's always...
...assailants in all cases are Great Whites, which can grow to more than 20 ft. long and weigh up to 3½ tons. Many biologists trace the sharks' increasing aggression to recent rulings like the U.S. Marine Mammals Protection Act of 1972. That law makes it illegal to hunt pinnipeds like sea lions, elephant seals and sea otters, all staples of an adult shark's diet. Fifteen elephant seals lived in the Red Triangle area in 1961; by 1984 there were 5,000. The sea lion population has been increasing by 5% a year. As a result, Great...
...largest manufacturers of telephone equipment, (AT&T, ITT, Motorola, RCA and GTE), NSA officials believe technology has been developed that will lead to what Deeley, in computer jargon, calls "a user-friendly secure phone" at a cost of less than $2,000 a unit. Scrambling units in current use weigh about 70 lbs. and take up the space of two filing-cabinet drawers. Electronics experts expect the new units to employ small, inexpensive microcircuits built directly into the telephone receiver. The scrambler converts signals produced by conversation into electronic "white noise" that is meaningless until disencrypted, or unscrambled...
Similarly, "whether it's a human running, or whether it's an ostrich or a horse, if they weigh the same they'll use the same amount of energy" to run, Taylor said...