Word: weighted
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...identified with postwar America, seems to fly in the face of the prevailing patriotic afterglow of the ?last good war.? The melodramatic main storyline - a race to gain intelligence from the Japanese that could, in some unspecified way, turn the war around - carries about as much weight as one of Hitchcock?s MacGuffins. No one talks about the war?s ideals, or its causes, or even its combatants; every character in the show is seeking a way of escaping from...
...going to write about how the Patty Kazmaier Award Selection Committee screwed over Harvard junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt, how it held against her the fact that a Harvard player had already won five of the 10 awards given out, how it gave way too much weight to Mercyhurst’s Meghan Agosta’s inflated goal totals, or how it exhibited an obvious pro-Sweden bias in voting for Minnesota-Duluth’s Kim Martin, a Stockholm native (alright, maybe not that...
...time I met Ma, it was clear he understood that Taiwan was punching below its weight and that it had to liberate its over-regulated economy to compete in a globalized world. He also recognized that Taiwan needed to acknowledge China's might. Now that he is President, Ma wants to launch direct transport links with the mainland, lift restrictions on Taiwan businesses operating in China and open the island to Chinese tourists and investors. As he told my colleague Michael Schuman: "We can make cross-strait relations work for both - a win-win situation...
...three best friends from college. It's enough to make a rock star want to become a farmer, which is exactly what drummer Bill Berry did when he retired from the band in 1997. Singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills continued, but they put more weight behind their vow to rock on into middle age than into any actual rocking, and it soon became clear that Berry's departure had done quite a number on the group's psychology...
...voters remains to be seen. "Is it possible Obama could win Pennsylvania? Yes, but it would take aggressive campaigning and a big shift in momentum his way," said Donald F. Kettl, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania. "He would need to shake off the dead weight of the Reverend Wright episode and find a way to capitalize on the economic worries that are especially strong in Pennsylvania...