Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like giving birth--each copy will weigh almost three pounds," she says...
Though the Crimson held tight throughout the game, fatigue became the deciding factor. Rested Providence skaters came alive in the third period and outskated their exhausted Crimson counterparts to victory. The prospects of growing tired in the third period will weigh especially heavy on the Crimson if tonight's game is as physical and penalty-laden as the past two were against Northeastern...
Social science, however, is an imperfect discipline. Referring to programs for young children, Isabel Sawhill, a scholar at the Urban Institute and former official in the Clinton Administration, has written, "The evidence is always mixed. We simply do not know whether they work. In these cases, one must weigh the risk of doing something and having it not work against the risk of doing nothing and missing an opportunity to improve lives. It can be just as costly to not fund a potentially successful program as it is to fund a potentially unsuccessful...
...video-conferencing and other technology, he oversees both TV series--King is produced in Los Angeles and Beavis in New York City--from his office in Austin. His wife Francesca stays home with the couple's two daughters, one five and the other two, neither of whom gets to weigh in on their father's work because they aren't permitted to watch TV programs that have commercials...
Picture it--Philadelphia, 1795. Sarah Waldrake and Rachel Summers were given 50 cents a day to weigh gold coins at the Mint. They were the first women to become employees of the federal government...