Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admit it. She'd sensed it was going to be somebody eventually; how lucky that it was this man who was so attractive and sexy and seemed to like her." Every action by every man and woman who touches on the four central figures is explained away, forcing the weight of consequence on to the victims themselves...
...Davis affair has given us one lesson. Accusations about the strictly racial implications of Davis's statements, whether wrong or right, carry little weight with many of the people who embrace his consideration of standards of excellence. If anything, such attacks will only goad people into Davis's camp, possible through sympathy for the scholar's rights of academic freedom...
...issues? Last week he described some to TIME Correspondent David Wood: creating jobs for the unemployed by shortening the work week or work year; controlling inflation by "conditional wage-price controls and by ending wasteful, inflationary spending in the automobile industry and in military and space programs"; regulating the weight and speed of cars to reduce fuel consumption. He insists that he has not stirred much attention because national press coverage has been niggardly. Says he: "We deserve at least as much attention as Walter Cronkite gave to the boy he thought for two days had been raised by apes...
...England's first school of veterinary medicine there, and in Tufts' graduate schools to emphasize those programs "where jobs will be waiting at the other end." He also plans to have every student take at least one course a year in decision making. Says he: "The whole weight of universities today is on the analytical study of problems, but no effort is made, no system is applied to get those elements of information back together to make decisions possible...
...method has its hazards. It is often difficult to tell if a national trait derives from an unconscious attachment to tradition or simply from the weight of practical circumstances. A Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party does not adequately explain some of the darker aspects of China's modern experience: the nearly irrational passion of such campaigns as the Cultural Revolution, or Mao's tendency to litter the political arena with the corpses of former friends. By ignoring these parts of the Chinese reality, or treating them as derivations of the past, Solomon sometimes appears a bit apologetic...