Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long opposed Malaysia, has only lately and reluctantly accepted the idea. Sukarno insisted on a full-scale referendum in Sarawak and North Borneo before Malaysia comes into existence, to "ascertain" whether these territories really want the federation. They plainly do, but Sukarno just wanted to throw his weight around. He was supported, halfheartedly, by Macapagal, since the Philippines has a shadowy legal claim to certain parts of North Borneo and a referendum would offer a face-saving way of abandoning the claim...
...board itself-commonly a polyurethane foam strip coated with Fiberglas and glossed with polyester resin-used to be cut to order, depending on the user's height, weight and skill, at a cost of $115 to $150. Now popular demand has brought readymade "pop-out" models for $70, even finish-it-yourself "blanks" that sell for as little as $30 wholesale. This year dealers expect to sell at least 30,000 boards, and rentals are booming...
Rules of the Club. The rates are set by clubby "conferences" of ship lines, where less attention is paid to a cargo's weight and bulk or the distance to be carried than to what the traffic will bear. The conferences are dominated by foreign-subsidized lines, each of which is eager to promote its own country's exports. To discourage rate wars, the Commerce Department has insisted that its own subsidized lines adhere to the conference rates...
...billion-a-year food industry sees plumper profits in slimmer people. Ogling the early success of Metrecal and similar liquid diets, and armed with surveys showing that 88% of all U.S. adults want to hold their weight down, the food-and-drink men have hurried out a broad new line of low-calorie products that this year will account for a tidy $300 million in sales...
...freedom in his country is too often defined as "the right to worship God in one's own way." The state cannot favor all religions (in this case all Judeo-Christian religions) over none any more than one religion over another; the conscience of one unbeliever carries as much weight as the consciences of a million believers. The ultimate meaning of the universe and of human life is not a matter which can be settled by majority vote, and even "voluntary" religious observances imply that...