Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Brian E. Malone '96, vice president of the Harvard Republican club, said that proponents of affirmative action weigh factors such as race too heavily in decisions such as college admissions or job allocations...
...football player and O.J. Simpson traveling pal AL COWLINGS is finally on record about the case-a 900 phone-line recording, that is. For $2.99 a minute, callers can hear Cowlings reminisce about his friendship with O.J., or weigh in with their opinions about Simpson's guilt or innocence. Cowlings will keep all profits from the venture. That may explain why, as the meter clicks away, he speaks...
...guilt laid upon these students from their parents and peers weren't enough, some even transfer that guilt to all Asians in general. One student claimed that she felt "a very real duty to her race" to study ethnicity. She let the burden of her race weigh too heavily upon her own shoulders: "I think whether of not you want that responsibility [to effect change for Asian Americans], you have it." Again, the hapless Asian paradigm of self-sacrifice for the collective. Where is the thought behind the decisions, the motivations coming from within, not being driven by the expectations...
...truth is that for many Americans, the '80s and '90s have been tough. Malaise. Recession. Unemployment. Double employment. The decline of the family. The rise of aids. The real epidemic, says Dr. Dean Ornish, author of the best-selling Eat More, Weigh Less, is not obesity but what he calls "emotional and spiritual heart disease." "There's been such a radical shift in our culture," he says. "People feel lonely, isolated and alienated...
...Turners, the Alan Bonds, the Baron Bichs and the Raul Gardinis out to prove who was the richest, swiftest guy on the dock. The very image of the U.S. as a mega-tech superpower seemed at stake. Let Airbus lend its experts to the French, let the Australians weigh in with winged keels, let the Japanese marshal their mighty corporate establishment; the best of Boeing, Lockheed, M.I.T. and General Motors would jump to attention with aerodynamicists, meteorologists, computer analysts, naval architects and fluid dynamics experts to prove that the America's Cup still deserved to be American...