Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dole: I think we all change. It seems to me that when you become the Speaker of the House, or even the leader of the Senate, you need to weigh what you say a little more carefully, because somebody is going to interpret it-properly or improperly-and it sometimes has meaning. I think we all have got to be responsible...
...jury must weigh the depths of her despair against the monstrosity of her crime-and the scars of abuse against her own emotional havoc. The weight they give each factor will make the difference between death for Susan Smith and life in prison...
Team O.J., however, is hoping for the big score: an outright acquittal. Without one, Simpson must remain in jail awaiting a second trial, and his expensive lawyers must weigh the image costs of abandoning the case once they've depleted O.J.'s fortune. But to get one, Simpson may have to testify. "The thinking of lawyers is that he can't get acquitted unless he takes the stand,'' says Los Angeles defense attorney Andrew Stein. The risk is that he would then have to withstand cross-examination on every piece of circumstantial evidence, but Stein for one believes he might...
Long said he thought that it was "very unlikely" that the culprits were students or laboratory employees. He said the criminals were probably using the scale, which was not one of the laboratories' more precise "analytical" devices, to weigh and "market on their own" certain illegal colorless chemical powders...
...illegally, though they said they were visiting a friend just across the border from Kuwait. At home, the White House fought GOP calls to consider a military rescue mission if Iraq does not release the men. Sunday, presidential candidate Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said President Clinton should publicly weigh military options, while House Speaker Newt Gingrich joined the chorus today: "We want this nonsense to stop." White House spokesman Mike McCurry, who dismissed Lugar's statements as campaign posturing, said the Administration would pursue a diplomatic solution. But he wouldn't rule out force...