Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas Jefferson called it "the most dangerous blot on our Constitution." In the past 200 years, more than 500 proposals have been made by Congress to reform it. Last week, for the first time in this century, a President put the weight of his office behind the notion that it should be abolished altogether. Jimmy Carter proposed that the arcane and archaic Electoral College be replaced with direct, popular-vote presidential elections. He called the change "an issue of overriding Government significance...
...those objections can be overcome, the nation's railroads will have to spend millions rebuilding deteriorated roadbeds to bear the added weight of the coal shipments. One widely touted solution is to use slurry pipelines, which would pump pulverized coal and water to users throughout the country. Fine, but who will supply the water? "This is an extremely arid region," says David Freudenthal, Wyoming's state planning coordinator. "It's not that we are opposed to pipelines, but we are opposed to shipping our water out of state...
...does not play enough. If Coach Herb Brown thinks his play has fallen off, it is, he says, because jail looms. "I've got to serve time. It's affecting my game mentally and physically. It's on my mind. It's a heavy weight, a burden." But, reminded that by the terms of his contract he must play in the playoffs, Barnes said he would not let his team down...
...free choice in a determined world--of Andrei, Prince Bolkonski who gets sucked into the wars, of Natasha Rostova, his young fiancee who does not manage to remain faithful, of the Bolkonski serfs who incite an abortive revolt--all positioned so carefully in the novel, collapse beneath the weight of the simplistic anti-war statement of the play...
...Laborite Hugh Scanlon, president of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, which represents the toolmakers, joined Leyland's labor relations boss Pat Lowry to endorse a strikebreaking ultimatum: go back on the job by Monday or get the sack. With reverse English, Tory politicians and press threw their weight behind the strikers. "Union bosses must act for their members, not the government," wrote Tory Employment Spokesman James Prior in the Times...