Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style. And there are hundreds of styles to choose from-harem trousers and bellbottom slacks, pantaloons, culottes and jump suits among them. Dressed-up pajamas all, most are sold with tops and accompanying overskirts; available in fancy fabrics like embroidered lace (by Courreges, for $800) as well as lighter weight silk jersey (by Pucci, for $210), Fortrel and cotton (by Sportwhirl, for $35) and Arnel knit (by Loomtogs, for $36), they bloom with checks and flowers, glitter with pearls and gold, or stand out like the moon, all white and stark. Graceful to look at and com fortable to lounge...
...local solar-system gravitation would double, drawing the earth closer to the sun. The pressure in the sun's center would increase, thus raising its temperature, its generation of energy and its brightness. Before being seared into a lump of charcoal, a man on earth would find his weight increasing from...
...Mass is that property of a body which resists change of motion. On the surface of the earth, it is closely equivalent to weight. Austrian Physicist Ernst Mach (1838-1916), who gave his name to the principle, is better known today for Mach numbers, a method of measuring speed in multiples of the speed of sound...
...calculated answers promise to help cut through the growing confusion about fats and the heart. Today, almost every time some authority sounds off on the subject, the effect is to multiply the contradictions. Last week the American Heart Association suggested that although the proof is not yet conclusive, the weight of evidence indicates that a lower-fat diet, with proportionately more polyunsaturated:|: vegetable fats, will help to save lives. But the Food and Drug Administration had just threatened action against manufacturers who label shortenings and cooking oils as polyunsaturated, thus implying that they are good for the heart and arteries...
North v. South. By sheer weight of numbers, the underdeveloped nations got their way in the endless committee meetings. But the resolutions meant little without the backing of the industrial nations that carry on 80% of the world's trade. Working against the June 15 adjournment deadline, the conference's president, Egypt's Deputy Premier Abdel Moneim El-kaissouni, and secretary general, Argentine Economist Raul Prebisch, used their skills as suave fixers ,to salvage some things. The industrial nations' delegates made several soft compromises. By supporting proposals to reconvene the trade meeting every three years...