Word: weighted
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Busbee complains that his group has already been "caught with our britches down" on an important issue. Backed firmly by CONEG (the Coalition of Northeastern Governors), Harrington's group got Congress to change the formula for federal community development grants to give new weight to areas where most of the existing housing was built before 1939. This is expected eventually to yield an increase of 71 % in these funds available to the North, where houses are older, compared with 12% for the South...
...novelty of the Northerners' argument is their insistence that existing programs for such things as housing, education and defense be re-evaluated geographically in view of the North's currently depressed state. The South argues against giving new weight to geography in federal grants, since it benefits by the present system. How much federal grant formulas should change is a subject the Carter Administration will weigh in the nine months Congress has allowed for preparation of proposals based on last week's conference. Publicly, both sides pooh-pooh any possibility that tension between North and South will increase beyond...
Harvard's co-captain Jim Corcoran said yesterday, "We wrestled well but got too far in the hole. We knew they were really tough in the early weight classes...
...task, then, was to free language from its weight of inherited content, in the hope of freeing life itself. Chance, ambiguity, insult, nonsense, anything would serve, if it promised to break the crust. Above all, there was irony: the indifference of Duchamp, -the attacks on the social jugular perpetrated by German Dadaists like George Grosz and John Heartfield, and Picabia's drawings, which make mock of the cult of the machine. When this battery of anarchic techniques moved to Paris in the '20s, colliding with a long but temporarily dormant tradition of romanticism, surrealism was the result...
...grapplers left for Ithaca Thursday at 1 p.m. and had to skip dinner because weigh-ins were not until Friday morning. Coach Lee said yesterday after the Tech that "conditioning and weight problems had an effect on the match...