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...continue to support the Grille in this, its trying hour of need. The owner and managers of the Grille are decent and humble folk, and we are certain that this black mark--like those of five earlier sting operations and $12,000 previously paid in alcohol fines--will forevermore weigh heavy on their brows...
...divided conservative parties to unite behind Chirac next year. "Today," says Perrineau, "the only man who can bridge the divisions on the right is Chirac. He has the capacity to emerge as the great unifier." But if the war is not lost for Chirac, the battle for Paris will weigh heavily on his chances...
...steel outside one's "area," it would cost six times as much. Refrigerators would chill eggs and butter for only three or four hours before they "crashed," entailing a call to an 800 number. A pound of wheat would be a pound of wheat*--meaning that it would neither weigh a pound nor be composed of grain without the purchase of a 12-month contract. A hamburger would be defined as two buns around a paper coupon promising the delivery of a meat patty as soon as meat-patty technology was rolled out nationally...
...College officials who de-emphasize the SAT usually focus more on evaluating the high schools that students come from. "If we don't have SAT any longer, we'll have to weigh more heavily on what's left - the students' GPA, their curriculum of college-prep courses and other things," says Rae Lee Siporin, admissions director of ucla, which receives more applications each year - about 40,000 - than any other U.S. college. But those measures can amplify the inequalities among high schools even more than the SAT. As Duke University admissions director Christoph Guttentag notes, "The students in school districts...
...crew told me it was like driving Dad's car. You learn the basics after a week. After three months, a sailor should be proficient enough so the diving officer doesn't constantly have to prompt. Dad's car, however, didn't weigh 18,750 tons. The sub responded sluggishly when I moved the wheel. I also had to steer three-dimensionally. The wheel not only turned left and right, but to point the boat down or up, I had to push the wheel in or pull it to my chest. What's more, the sub has two steering wheels...