Word: weighted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...politicians also need the late-night shows, on which they can end-around the harder-edged media. The night before Iowa, Huckabee kicked off Leno's return, answering such hardball questions as "How did you lose all that weight?" and jamming on bass with the house band, à la Bill Clinton blowing sax on Arsenio Hall in 1992. Beats workin...
...Laughs.] Mashed potatoes. I try not to, because I hope people will notice I have lost a lot of weight since I was Secretary. [Instead] I try to seek comfort in apples...
...Crimson (0-4) competed without freshman Corey Jantzen (141 lbs.), who was recovering from a sprained knee, forcing it to forfeit the 141-lb. weight class for the length of the three-meet tournament. The team was also without junior Andrew Flanagan (165 lbs.) due to a high ankle sprain that has repeatedly sidelined him this season...
However, attempts to end capital punishment must overcome inertia and the weight of public sentiment. This isn't easy. In the U.S., support for the death penalty has fallen from a high of about 80% at the peak of the murder epidemic of the 1980s and '90s to somewhere between half and two-thirds, depending on the poll. But politicians know that a 69% approval rating is nothing to sneeze at. Only one state has abolished capital punishment since the Supreme Court reinstated it in 1976: New Jersey, last month. Legislatures in New Mexico, Montana, Nebraska and Maryland appear...
...electing delegates to the state convention. "The 15% rule some people don't like. If I'm for Candidate X, well, if they only get 4% maybe their chances of making it to the end isn't great, so maybe it's best to throw your weight behind someone with viability...