Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GOALS that the U.S. has in the region are buried beneath the weight of the Carter administration's big-power calculus. The paramount U.S. interest in Indochina today is stability to preserve the non-socialist regimes that remain, and stability to insure the safety of Japanese and American trade throughout the region. But without normalization the United States forfeits its influence in the area. As a Congressional Research Service study noted, "Vietnam is essential to any regional arrangement for resolving conflicts and preserving peace in Southeast Asia...
...That fire extinguishers "having a gross weight not exceeding 40 pounds shall be installed so that the top of the extinguisher is not more than five feet above the floor...
...England trip in late August means so much right now," said Howard, a Fine Arts major in Eliot House. "It brought our club together, and we've maintained that high ever since. We feel good about ourselves, believe in each other, and everybody is pulling their own weight and contributing for the team...
Whatever prompted him to try this film--whether boredom with his mastery of the "Woody Allen" genre of films or simply a middle-aged change-of-life crisis--Allen is playing with no less than his career. So if the weight of the world hung over Allen when he wrote and directed Interiors, it shows in the film. Interiors is very, very sober: the story chronicles a family's trials and collapse, and the script is filled with heavy dialogue. The father, played by a stalwart but silent E.G. Marshall, severs ties with his compulsive interior decorator-wife (Geraldine Page...
...come from an easygoing civilian life into a regimented environment. They suffer homesickness; they find it hard to get up at 5 a.m. Some of the women have not been accustomed to eating three meals daily and are required to do so here. Thus they tend to gain weight at first. But they are soon in good shape...