Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...airline was forced to lift the limits that had cost her a job. After lawsuits by the union and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, American agreed to revise its standards. Under the settlement, the company's 1959 weight requirements will be relaxed, and employees will be able to weigh more as they age. Violators will be required to lose just 2 lbs. a month rather than 1 1/2 lbs. a week. If they fail, they will be given jobs within the company rather than fired...
...Harvard. Previously, the right of Harvard students to free expression has been nebulous, at best. The Free Speech Guidelines adopted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 13 and May 15 of 1990 state only that "it is expected that when there is a need to weigh the right of freedom of expression against other rights, the balance will be struck after a careful review of all relevant facts and will be consistent with established First Amendment standards...
...weapons deliveries when Iraq invaded Kuwait. But more than markets and money was at stake. Mitterrand had to consider the legacy of General Charles de Gaulle, who believed it was part of France's destiny to develop a special relationship with the Arab world. The President also had to weigh the probable impact of his actions on neighboring Arab states around the Mediterranean -- not to mention 4 million North Africans living in France...
...light of Saddam's feints in the war of words, Bush must weigh his timing and tactics even more closely. -- A look inside battered Baghdad. -- How are bombing targets chosen? -- AirLand strategy, designed for World War III, gets its first real test in the Persian Gulf...
...propaganda, fill in what's missing (e.g., unshown brutalities % in Kuwait) and make an intelligent judgment, but other people won't. I can absorb the emotional impact of the terrible imagery of war without losing my ability to reason, but other people cannot. I am responsible enough to weigh the consequences of reversing course now that war has started, but my fellow citizens are not to be trusted...