Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hunt for Patty Hearst, Bates, who earns $36,000 a year, customarily rose at 5:30 a.m. each day. For lack of time, he gave up hunting and cut back on weekend golf. Says his wife: "The Hearst case has just consumed our life. This removes a 50-pound weight." Now Bates can return to his normal routine, unless he decides to take one of several job offers in private business. But he may well stay on in the FBI. Explains Bates, who habitually wears on a gold chain four service pins for 10, 20,25 and 30 years with...
...annual rate of 6% to 7%, indicating that the underlying rate of inflation has not changed much. In September the index as a whole is likely to rise more than in August, though scarcely back to the double-digit range. At the least, though, the August figures give weight to the Ford Administration's argument that the scary inflation pace of early summer was an aberration, and might calm nervous consumers and investors. Indeed, the stock market, after falling to 795 on the Dow Jones industrial average-close to its summer low-rallied late last week to end Friday...
...tolerated. Just Before Nightfall, an intelligent and wholly unsparing dark comedy, concerns an advertising executive named Charles (Michel Bouquet) who murders his mistress. Charles discovers-as did Hickey, under rather more intense circumstances in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh-that what is insupportable is the weight of pardon...
Later research, however, has not borne out his forecast. In a new study called Still a Dream, Sar A. Levitan, William B. Johnston and Robert Taggart concluded that "the weight of the evidence seems to suggest that integration in the schools can make small improvements in black I.Q. and achievement." Still other researchers find the evidence too contradictory to support any overall findings...
...sensed only surfaces. Forms became empty figures without gravity or weight. He closed his eyes, blotting out the flat shapes that used to have dimension and meaning in his life, and the sounds that used to have resonance...