Word: weighed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mother Teresa of Calcutta should commit murder, any court might weigh her amazing life's labor against the evil of the one deed. The murder would be the exception in a life that otherwise displayed merit and extravagantly claimed mercy. But Jack Abbott's vividly ranting book, brutal and brutalized, should have made the jury wonder which was more characteristic of the man: literature or murder. In a long and essentially tragic perspective (in which all consequences are endured, all debts paid), literature performs its redemptions. Mailer's formula is a shallow little mechanism. "Culture is worth...
...large number of white students sent to Currier House two years ago, not from any long-term trend towards racial balance. The College is right to consider ways of making the Houses the more representative, diverse units that most administrators believe they should be. We call upon Harvard to weigh seriously a random lottery for rooming groups to make their ideal of microcosmic Houses a tenable...
...swing-wing planes are difficult to build. They require greater structural strength, weigh more and burn more fuel than a comparable fixed-wing aircraft. As far back as 1945, Robert T. Jones of NASA's Ames Research Center, who proposed the first U.S. swept-wing aircraft, saw a simple solution: a single, rigid wing that would swing on a single pivot point. The oblique wing, as he called it, would vastly simplify the structural problem. The fact that one end of the wing would be pointing forward might look odd, but it was, he realized, aerodynamically unimportant. In high...
Jane Byrne smiling. Jane Byrne not smiling. Chicagoans have seen both faces of their controversial mayor, but never at the same time. In its December issue, however, Chicago magazine gave newsstand browsers a chance to weigh both her grin and her grimace. The magazine's 250,000 copies were split between the two faces of Jane, and news dealers gave each cover equal rack space. The results? In the city center (home of high taxes and declining services), the frown won out, 5 to 4. Ah, but in the grassy suburbs (home of better schools and less violence...
...town dump. They often come closer in, to sniff around cabins and houses, even parked cars and vans, if they think there may be a snack inside. Polars vie with Kodiak bears for the title of largest land-based carnivore in the world. A full-grown male can weigh more than 1,600 Ibs. (vs. grizzlies at 1,000 Ibs. and tigers at 850 Ibs.). If the bear is determined enough, it will barge right in; few doors are much use against powerful paws that can knock out an 800-lb. seal with a single swat...