Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Institute for Afro-American Research, and to create at least four additional chairs in Afro-American Studies. Harvard's failure to fulfill these recommendations could only be construed by the black community as compelling evidence that Harvard is not serious about Afro-American Studies and continues to throw its weight on the negative side of black aspirations. (emphasis ours...
...year later, the mental picture that remains is one of their gravity-defying feats: Mel Embree floating almost weightlessly over the high jump bar; Hunt Block extending his legs in mid-air, stretching for every last inch in the long jump; massive Dan Jiggets whipping the 35-lb. weight in a high, long arc; Ahmedj Kayali grimacing and gyrating, on his way to another triple-jump victory...
...Crimson also has suffered heavy losses in the weight events, in the persons of shot putter Kevin McCafferty and shotputter/weight thrower Jiggetts. Chris Queen and Mitch Whitten may come on strong in the shotput, but no one knows for sure...
...heavy share of the domestic market to a record 55.8%, from 53.1% in 1975. To get an early start on meeting federal reg-ulatioris that require U.S.-made autos to average 27.5 m.p.g. by 1985, GM has ' taken a multi-billion-dollar gamble in shrinking the size and weight of its cars. The public's approval of the lighter and crisply styled autos has delighted GM executives. Cadillac, which brought out its Mercedes-size Seville, experienced its best year ever in 1976. For the first time, Oldsmobile's intermediate-size Cutlass shoved aside Chevrolet and Ford...
...problem, however, proved obdurate: Brando's weight. Instead of looking like a Green Beret commander, trim and tough, Brando, who was paid $2 million, panted through the paddies like Sidney Greenstreet vainly looking for the way to Rick's Bar. Coppola's solution was to film only Brando's face and hands in closeup and to use a suitably slim, 6-ft. 5-in. double for long shots. Even Coppola's inventiveness had no remedies, however, for the two typhoons that ripped up his sets...