Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson deals with the problem like a political scientist: through a cost-benefit analysis of the criminal's "decision to become involved in crime." He presumes that the criminal is rational enough to weigh the potential costs of an illegal act and will base his actions on the risk he is willing to take. Not surprisingly, his belief in the rational criminal leads Wilson to the idea of raising the cost relative to the benefit. When the criminal sees that an illegal act is too risky, Wilson reasons, he will restrain from the illicit activity...
Soviet scientists had been trying to find a suitably cheap, protein-based caviar substitute for more than a decade. Most sturgeons-huge fish that can weigh more than 1,000 lbs.-are caught in the Caspian Sea. But as a result of a drop in water level and rising industrial pollution at the Russian end of the sea, the Soviet sturgeon catch has been dwindling, while Iran's production has remained steady. After experimenting with other possible bases for a caviar substitute, the Russian chemists settled on casein, a protein found in curdled milk. Explains Chemist Vladimir Tolstogouzov: "Soybean...
...constructed of wood (darkly stained oak) over an air space, so that they will act as sounding boards. The hall is snugger than before (650,000 cu. ft., v. 850,000), and since any pianissimo needs silence, each air-conditioning duct is lined, and the tightly sealed doors weigh 370 Ibs. each. Every piece of plaster and wood is the solidest money...
Possibly the most remarkable piece of Kongcraft, however, is the giant arms employed mainly to pick up and caress Jessica Lange, 27, the model-turned-actress who plays his inamorata, Dwan. The hands are 6 ft. across and the arms weigh 1,650 Ibs. each. They were designed and built separate from the complete Kong body and suspended from a crane in order to lift Lange 30 or 40 ft. into the air. Again, hydraulics were used to manipulate the huge fingers, and there was great concern that they might lack fine motor skills and accidentally crush Lange. Like...
...detailed and gossipy book on The New York Times, Gay Talese describes the tension in The Times's newsroom on the day its editors had to decide whether to print secret information on the Bay of Pigs invasion, and if so, how. Rarely does an American newspaper need to weigh its First Amendment rights against such "national security" concerns--only once in a newsman's career, perhaps--and so when it does the decision can cause even a seasoned editor, as Talese puts it--paraphrasing Times editor Clifton Daniel---"to quiver with emotion and turn 'dead white...