Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hometown editors seemed to have trouble on the soggy field and were at first awed by the larger opposition, which had a weight advantage of 30 pounds per man. An added handicap was that the Princetonian insisted on having rules. These several obstacles enabled the Tiger Rag to nail Andy Jamison in the end zone after he dropped back 25 yards to pass...
...leave. I've learned to use cocoa butter for my skin, take vitamin A for my hair, cuticle cream for my nails, and I've bought a new wig. It's a whole way of life. Except some of these older ladies here don't really lose any weight...
Marty got pregnant this summer. She was looking much better when I saw her last week, and I told her so. "That's because I've lost weight," she said, patting her stomach. She talked about her trip to London. "Tim and I flew in Thursday night. Friday I saw my doctor and the two psychiatrists. It was strange-they asked me questions like did I have any previous history of mental illness and did I get along with my parents and all. I said that I'd been through the usual number of hassles but that I was basically...
...economic growth... the fracture of a community, for example-are seldom considered." Few Western economists need to be told of the "human costs of rapid economic growth," though more familiar examples are urban congestion and pollution, and many will join in regretting that such costs are not given more weight in actual development programs...
...hoped, however, that Bowles and MacEwan will themselves supply the "thorough elaboration" of their views that they allude to at the close of their letter, and in doing so will explain just how they have arrived at their own presumably unbiased view of communist revolution. Particularly, what weight do they give to the actual historical experience with that system as distinct from free utopian invention? Perhaps they will explain too, for the question is inevitable, whether and how under communism economists could hope to escape the sad metamorphosis that they are assertedly experiencing in the West into "technicians" with...