Word: weighs
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There is a strong argument for leaving the ultimate decision with the president. He must consider the views of students, alumni, faculty, and outsiders, and must weigh all the ramifications of his choice. These broad considerations are not always perspicuous to students, whose obsession with a few important issues--now dismissed cursorily--may preclude the overview afforded by the president...
...magnet for that migration will be 43 ft. long, weigh 20,000 lbs. and look like a cross between a dragonfly and a giant howitzer. Its incongruous wings are actually solar panels used to generate electricity for powering the machine. Circling the earth once every 100 min., at an altitude of 310 miles, the space telescope will operate automatically under radio control from earth. It can be returned to earth for major overhauls; otherwise any servicing or repairs will be done by teams of astronauts ferried up by the shuttle. Thus maintained, the telescope's working life is expected...
...political commissar at the school about some minor disagreements he had with Soviet ideology. "Lenin said that we should pay any price for a communist who takes all dogmas without any thinking or discussion," Uspensky says. "I disagreed with that. I felt that every communist has a right to weigh all the postulates and doubt or disagree up to the point when a decision is taken." Twenty years later, when talking to a government interrogator, Uspensky learned that the party's dossier on him begins with this incident...
Electric shovels that weigh as much as 3 million lbs. eat into the hillsides while dump trucks carrying 160 tons of coal roar out of the pits 24 hours a day. During the first year of operation in 1977, Arco took 40,000 tons out of its Black Thunder mine. It has now extracted 1 1 million tons, and will take out 20 million tons...
Duran had to slim down for his rematch with Leonard. After the weigh-in at noon on the day of the fight, Duran gulped some bouillon, then went out for a steak and French fries. Later in the afternoon, he was still intensely hungry, and though his physician advised against it, he ate another steak dinner. The sudden feast after weeks of dieting may have led to the cramps. Said Dr. Nunez: "Roberto wasn't beaten by Sugar Ray Leonard. He was beaten by two sirloin steaks...