Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warlike conditions. All of them are potentially bloody. "Our level of military involvement must reflect our stakes," says Perry. The Gulf War fell into the first category, and Bosnia the second. "The second category is much more difficult to deal with than the first," he says, "because we must weigh the risks against the interests involved, and because the threats are not always so clear...
...must once again put ourselves into situations where third parties weigh our relative merits against those of our classmates. We take our lives and our educations in all of their complexity and distill them down into a few basic numbers and short essays. We take the products of this distillation and present the entire package to one committee or another--a fellowships selection committee, a law or medical school admissions committee, a hiring committee at some high-powered firm. We make ourselves vulnerable to the harshest rejection...
...yearly rite of passage for the college-bound, and as the only nationally comparative factor, thousands of colleges and universities weigh scores heavily in their admission processes. It is used to narrow the field for designating Presidential Scholars, and (in the PSAT form) to hand out thousands of National Merit Scholarships. If the noble souls who write this test can't even figure out that giving an identical exam to the same people twice is unacceptable, should they be entrusted by students and learning institutions with such extraordinary power...
...bars, offices and homes across the country, of blacks yelling for joy at the verdict and whites shaking their heads? Now, when a white person passes a black person on the street, race will be more at the front of their minds; when lawyers choose juries, they will weigh white and black even more carefully. For advocates of a race-blind society, this case was a tragedy...
...pups can weigh as much as a quarter of their mother's heft--the equivalent of a 100-lb. woman giving birth to a 25-lb. baby...