Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...analyze and weigh the performances of the candidates and the impact of Sunday night's debate on the election, TIME called on half a dozen experts from Government, politics and academe. Their comments and conclusions...
...Oval Office. When he sits down in front of the fireplace, in one of the Martha Washington chairs, to the President's left, Gromyko will find he is quite an attraction. At least six of the President's top men will be clustered around to weigh every word and interpret every gesture for some glint of the future relations between the superpowers...
...Human rights violations were largely attributable to death squads," says Snyder, echoing the opinion of members of the Salvadoran church and human rights organizations. "These squads operated with the consent and even participation of the military. Their violations far out-weigh the real but minimal number of incidents of civil violence perpetrated by the insurgents...
...take off, they need as much as a quarter-mile of liquid runway, and no one can watch the spectacle without praying Godspeed−they have to try so hard. They are an aeronautical nightmare, a nautical dream−they are faster than fish, which they eat. Grown, they weigh up to 9 Ibs. They sleep in the water. The only adjective that fits their call is haunting...
While the Harvard admissions process tends to emphasize the objective criteria, some other schools attempt to weigh subjective considerations more heavily. Columbia Law School, for example, attaches equal value to what Dean of Admissions James Milligan calls "the enrichment factor...