Word: weighted
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...everybody, but kind of competing with [Desmond], just being able to talk trash with my brother...gives that extra push.” For both defensive ends, their sibling rivalry runs deep and pushes them to constantly one-up each other. “One thing is, in the weight room, he and I are two of the strongest benchers on the team, so when it comes to chest day, if he gets three reps, I just absolutely have to get four reps,” Desmond jokes. “No question about it.” All told...
...first large-scale study estimating the impact of a combination of lifestyle factors on mortality, the research team found that subscribing to healthy lifestyle factors—not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight and diet, and exercising regularly—dramatically reduces the risk of dying...
...Clearly, the meltdown poses a problem for the next President. But is it the problem - a force so fundamental that it flattens everything in its path? Are the agendas and ambitions, the pet policies and platforms of Senator Maverick and Senator Change about to be squashed under the weight of a long, deep recession...
...Business School. “The implications of the bailout are much larger than dollar value.” The real question is what American taxpayers want the government to do, he added. “By allowing this bailout to go forward, we are putting greater weight on financial stability than financial innovation, and the government will have more responsibility for the financial system,” he said. Clayton S. Rose, a senior lecturer of business administration at the Business School and the former head of the Global Investment Banking and the Global Equities Divisions at J.P. Morgan...
...though he undoubtedly meant what he said, Wen's mea culpa must carry less weight than it would have a few years ago - on previous occasions he has been obliged to ask the people's pardon for everything from the deaths of coal miners and polluted drinking water to train passengers stranded by the authorities' inadequate response to a severe snowstorm. Faced with an ever expanding crisis over poisoned milk products and a string of other recent accidents that left hundreds dead - all directly attributable to administrative negligence or corruption - ordinary Chinese might be excused for asking themselves whether...