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...thought it was more stable and we knew that it didn’t weigh more,” Butt said. “The flow off the stern was minimal and the boat slipped through the water instead of plowing through. But the comfort of the rowers was the determining factor...
...year (which means the funds rate has now dropped from 6.5 to 3.75 percent), hit all the same notes as the five 50-pointers that came before: "The patterns evident in recent months - declining profitability and business capital spending, weak expansion of consumption and slowing growth abroad - continue to weigh on the economy. The risks are weighted mainly toward conditions that may generate economic weakness in the foreseeable future." And even, "The associated easing of pressures on labor and product markets are expected to keep inflation contained...
...earth's gravity tries to pull a rising rocket back to the ground. If the pull is strong enough, the expansion will stop and reverse itself; if not, the cosmos will go on getting bigger, literally forever. Which is it? One way to find out is to weigh the cosmos--to add up all the stars and all the galaxies, calculate their gravity and compare that with the expansion rate of the universe. If the cosmos is moving at escape velocity, no Big Crunch...
...added, "we could speak about mistrust . Now it has turned into hatred." For Captain first-class Muhaedin Bela , who says he was singled out for suspicion only because he was the only Albanian commissioned officer at the strategically important air base outside Skopje, the words of his mysterious inquisitor weigh heavily. "All I can think of is what he said," Bela said this week from his cramped apartment in a crowded Albanian section of the capital. "If this war will not end at the negotiating table, then how will...
...There is no universal definition of the living wage. PSLM gets their estimate from the city of Cambridge, but municipalities, private employers and organizations can all weigh factors differently to come up with a different ?iving wage...