Word: weighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Changing Recipes. Bottlers sell $1.5 billion worth of diet soft drinks annually. That is 15% of the total U.S. soft-drink market, and has been the fastest growing segment, thanks to heavy advertising and a weight-conscious citizenry. The most popular labels: Tab (made by Coca-Cola), Diet Pepsi, Sugar Free 7Up and Dr Pepper, and Diet Rite Cola. Now producers may be forced to change their recipes, perhaps adding small amounts of sugar-and calories...
Change will come ever so slow in men's sports for the sheer weight of inertia is overwhelming. But women's sports are hopefully still in a formative stage and will be responsive to insightful and intelligent leadership...
...policies severely. Or, as Canada's Premier Trudeau described it, it is like having a honeymoon with an elephant: the slightest change in position is enough to crush the poorer country. And it was due to Mexico's past policies that the elephant turned just enough to make its weight felt...
...proposed ban, expected to go into effect in July, is based on a study by the Canadian government's health-protection laboratory in Ottawa. For three years, researchers fed rats daily doses of saccharin that amounted to 5% of their diet by weight. In the first generation of rodents, seven out of 38 developed bladder tumors, three of them malignant. In the second generation of rats-which had developed in the wombs of saccharin-fed mothers, were nursed on their milk and later given the chemical themselves-twelve out of 44 had tumors; eight of them were malignant. That...
...certainty is not shared by all commentators and scientists in the field." Unlike fingerprints, the court noted, spectrograms may vary according to such things as the speaker's health or age. And like a lie detector test there is a risk that the jury will give too much weight to such testimony. Though top courts in two states admit voiceprints as evidence, the court decided that Pennsylvania would not join them until there was "general acceptance" of the precision of voiceprints among experts. The court then ordered a new trial for Topa...