Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...criticism flared again after a flood of publicity about Margaret and Roddy at their favorite retreat, the Caribbean island of Mustique. The royal family was due for a salary increase on Parliament's "civil list," and critics, both royalist and republican, asked sharply whether Margaret was pulling her princessly weight. Since then Margaret has been unusually visible on the royal circuit...
...Chevrolet V-8 engine is built from hubs up in Milwaukee. The $64,500 Stutz Blackhawk VI starts out as a new wide-track Pontiac Grand Prix, which is sent to Turin, where Italian descendants of descendants of coachmakers handcraft a body of 18-gauge steel (twice the weight of Mercedes metal); the Shah of Iran is said to have ordered twelve of them...
What really frosts me though is that all the work I put into getting ready for professional football has gone to waste. Way back, three or four weeks ago, I hit the weight rooms to "bulk up" and just two days ago I jogged a half-mile; I was ready. I had contracted an agent, Shep, who was ready to negotiate tooth and nail to win me a six figure contract. Now Shep wants his percentage, and I've got no money...
...Neil Young's Helpless, Paul Butterfield's Mystery Train, Muddy Waters' Mannish Boy and Morrison's downright ecstatic Caravan. The Band's numbers are full of lyric intricacies and haunting musical motifs. When the group joins the Staples to do The Weight on a mysterious sound stage set away from the concert hall, the song becomes a mini-movie...
...Corporation seems to have based the whole weight of its decision concerning investment in South Africa on the Sullivan principles. Arguing that, since US corporations make up only 2 or 3 per cent of the South African GNP, it would be more effective to improve working conditions for non-whites employed by these corporations (.4 per cent of the non-white work force). Besides ignoring the fact that low wages and inhuman work conditions are only one small aspect of apartheid, this argument rests on a strange logic that rejects one strategy because it manipulates such a small wedge...