Word: weighs
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...disappointment wouldn't weigh so heavily if the promise of victory hadn't swirled so tantalizingly close. John Kerry's finest days, the period when he looked the most presidential, came during the debates, with the campaign finish line twinkling on the horizon. Throughout October, as the race pulled tighter than Paris Hilton's jeans, Kerry volunteers flooded the purple states to energize their voters--tens of thousands of them newly registered...
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. yesterday, REP members, clad in green ponchos and purple gloves, gathered outside the Science Center to weigh and sort the contents of garbage bags into five categories: paper, compostables, reusable, cans, bottles and actual trash. The amount in each category was then weighed to help REP get an idea of how much trash Harvard isn’t recycling...
...based models, according to research firm IDC. Most play both MP3 and Windows Media files and run on a single AAA battery, which lasts about 12 to 20 hours. FM-radio tuners and audio-record features are often built in (and rarely found on hard-drive players). Flash players weigh about 28 g, compared with 170 g for an iPod...
...reality of their situation set in, the men started to despair. They began to take chances they knew could result in death. One day, for example, they went looking in the attic for electrical insulators to weigh down a fishing net they were surreptitiously making to help boost their meager food supply, and found an array of microphones instead. On another occasion, they traded dozens of socks they had saved over many months for a small fishing boat. Once, they swam across a river at night to steal a bag of coal tar from a government construction site. "We used...
...Cambridge voters head to the polls today to cast their ballots in the presidential elections, they will also weigh in on several local races featuring candidates with Harvard connections...