Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...responsible adults, students can independently weigh the risks of traveling during a war. Epps says he made his decision after discussions with the State Department, suggesting that his risk evaluation is therefore more valid...
...fastest-growing market is the auto industry, which is increasingly replacing metal with lightweight plastics in bumpers, body panels and other parts. These polymers typically weigh half as much as steel but are just as strong. The plastics conserve gas by making a vehicle lighter, and manufacturing them requires 10% to 20% less energy than fabricating metal parts. Admittedly, there can be problems. General Motors found that the polymer body panels of some of its minivans started to peel like old wallpaper. Moisture had seeped between the sheets of plastic and caused the panels to come unglued...
...project's researchers say that people often forget that policy makers often have to weigh scientific information against political and economic considerations, and that they must also decide whose advice to believe when there is a lack of consensus among the scientific community...
...Prince Turki affair reveals just how low Harvard will sink in its refusal to weigh financial gain against ethical propriety. If Harvard didn't know about the prince's past, it should have. Now that it does, it should give back the money and send Prince Turki packing...
...reduce Britain's double-digit inflation rate. Sterling, already a petrocurrency at a time of soaring oil prices, will become even stronger. Pressure on Thatcher intensified also from other European capitals as the process of German unification reached its climax this month. In effect, Britain was being asked to weigh in as a countervailing force to Germany, which has Europe's most powerful economy. Even the French have been quietly but assiduously courting the British. Prior to unification day in Germany, a balance existed among West Germany, France and Britain, each with about the same populations, relative wealth...