Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...engines put out 3,000 h.p., as much as a diesel locomotive, except that a locomotive may weigh 300,000 lbs., while a top fueler weighs under 2,000 lbs., driver and decals included. (The decals are everywhere. Mostly they advertise sponsors, but they also serve to cover holes where exploding engine parts have perforated the body metal and to announce matters of personal philosophy. A stylized fish on his windshield declares Garlits a member of RACERS FOR CHRIST...
...population as a whole," she says. Indeed recent studies found that 75 percent of the fourth grade girls in a San Francisco school were dieting. Other studies indicate that even if the number of people with outright disorders is not increasing dramatically, the number of people on diets who weigh a normal amount is large and growing...
Anorexics characteristically have a distorted perception of their body size according to experts. "Anorexics I've talked with--they weigh half of what I weigh, and they can't tell who is fatter," says Sheila Reindl, a counselor at the Bureau of Study Counsel and co-director of an EPO group...
Crew teams have an obvious reason for concern about weight. Lightweight rowers have to weigh in at a certain level or they don't row in that boat. But for many other people, weight concerns develop for less discernable, psychological reasons...
...considered as we sat there during the tense period. It was like being asked by the Pope if you believed in God, or turning in CUE forms before grades are handed out. His position was inherently part of the information which each of us used to weigh the pros and cons...