Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopes the College can decide swiftly whether to seriously weigh alternative schemes or to give the issue up as hopelessly divisive. "We've spent enough time talking about this...
...bill, the two-party system was not up for grabs. It was up for sale." Strong stuff. Delighted, Ralph Nader's reformers sent every Congressman a copy. But listen to the CBS code of standards: The analyst's "function is to help the listener to understand, to weigh, and to judge, but not to do the judging for him." Moyers says: "I try to stay on this side of advocacy, but it's a dancing line, and sometimes I've been accidentally across that line...
Simmons College--which was slated to compete--did not appear for the weigh-in or the race, but it is doubtful that its presence would have perturbed the Cliffie strokers, who established a half-boat lead over Wellesley after the first 20 strokes, then widened that margin to win by two generous lengths of open water...
...Steve Baker calls golf "a nasty combination of concentration and physical ability." Baker, who began playing golf on a converted cow pasture renamed Rolling Acres near his New London. Ohio, hometown, thinks the demands on a Harvard golfer make it less than idyllic. Carrying your own clubs, which can weigh 30 pounds or more, for 18 to 36 holes is a "mini-marathon," for anyone he says. The team doesn't ride around in golf carts sipping martinis between tees. They also play in adverse conditions. "At home," Baker remarks, "you wouldn't think of going out on the golf...
College admissions officials weigh grades and Scholastic Aptitude Test scores three times as heavily as personal qualities and extracurricular activities, a study released earlier this week finds...