Word: weighing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Questions like these, some of them raised by G.O.P. legislators, prompted Attorney General Janet Reno to order the Justice Department to weigh the possibility of recommending that an independent counsel be appointed to investigate the matter...
...consumer group warns that restaurants serve far larger portions--with more FAT AND CALORIES--than what the government considers normal serving size. A portion of French fries should weigh 3 oz., containing 220 calories, yet most establishments dish out helpings twice that size...
...tried to work out a lot over this summer," Millar said. "I weigh more and they can't throw me around as much as they did my freshman year...
...important in deciding who should be President; a campaign shouldn't be turned into a Sunday school picnic where money, religion and politics are off limits. But neither the candidates, who have similarly flawed histories, nor the press, which reduces moral subjects to cartoon dimensions, is well positioned to weigh one man's soul against another's. Dole has had a free ride for several weeks. But beware. There's time for several more news cycles and rules changes without notice. Clinton could decide to defend himself so that any victory he has contains an element of redemption, not just...
...leafing through my favorite sections by pressing up and down keys on a computer keyboard. Or erasing my mistakes on the crossword puzzle by pressing delete over and over again. There is something invaluable and indescribable about holding the actual product in your hand (and having it not weigh seventy-five pounds), whipping it out in the middle of the day, on a train ride or a bus ride or to refer to it, cutting an article out when you think it has some certain value to it, or saving it (long enough until it gets crinkly and really yellow...