Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anything to keep it off the ballot. The resolution would undoubtedly draw to the polls many people who have never before bothered to vote in a municipal election. All the Councillors are up for re-election and they are worried, some say, that the new voters will swing their weight against them...
...Shortridge uses a stretcher balanced between two sawhorses as his emergency operating table; hissing Coleman lanterns furnish the light, and an armored amtrack stands outside to accommodate extra patients. Most of the wounded suffer from arm and leg injuries. "That 20-lb. flak vest is worth five times its weight in gold," says Shortridge. "It must have saved a hundred lives...
...direction. With an accelerated production schedule-only 20 months from programming to production v. the usual 30 months-Ford could not tolerate errors. To avoid them, Beckett filled a 400-page "Red Book" with each of the car's 10,000 parts listed according to projected weight and cost. Each entry was personally signed by a team member, so that success became a personal burden...
Dean Ford reported Wednesday that Masters and Deans attached 'no particular weight' to a poll by the HUC which showed students favored a parietal extension...
...Masters placed "no particular weight" Ford said, on the HUC's poll in which, according to HUC representatives, 2605 students favored the parietal extension and 171 opposed it. Ford said the Masters "noted the conditions under which the poll was conducted in the various Houses." He would not specify what reservations the Masters had about the poll...