Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...venerable battlewagon is still awesome. Her 16-in. guns can hurl shells that weigh 2,700 Ibs. each (the weight of a Chevrolet) as far as 23 miles. She has been fitted with Toma hawk and Harpoon missiles, some with nuclear warheads; the Toma hawk can hit targets 1 ,500 miles away...
...creations could weigh as much as 18 Ibs. Recalls a client: "He was sometimes so entranced by the shape he was 'sculpting' over one's own shape that when the dress arrived finished it was impossible to get into it. It existed...
...Indonesia, Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sandra Burton watched a Mennonite missionary weigh bleating goats hung by their hoofs from a hook scale. And in the village of Mulia, in the untramped interior of Irian Jaya, the Indonesian half of New Guinea, she met Missionary Leon Dillinger, photographed for the cover by Roland Neveu...
...Western Europe during the second half of 1983. That was the cautious view of TIME'S European Board of Economists, which met in Geneva last week to survey the West's hesitant forces for recovery-most notably the falling interest rates around the world-and to weigh them against the twin recessionary demons of global debt and rising protectionism that are threatening the economies of nations everywhere...
...Oberlin, Mathematics Professor Samuel Goldberg teaches students how to "weigh risks and make complex decisions and not be overwhelmed." His system of analysis, balancing probabilities and consequences, can be used to help make important personal decisions, such as whether a cancer patient should have chemotherapy, and to tackle public policy questions, such as whether to build the B-l bomber...