Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even the most hard-line conservatives should be willing to admit that the Soviet Union's current changes represent progress. To argue that a virulent anti-communist like Reagan has suddenly turned naive is ludicrous. Such assertions carry about as much weight as the Kremlin's denunciations of human rights abuses in non-socialist countries...
...plan, so all food is prepared by students. Other chores, such as helping the cook, cleaning the dining room, the kitchen, and living areas, and buying food, are allocated on a point system. House residents must accumulate a certain number of points each semester in order to carry their weight...
Princeton won the varsity light-weight eights race. Georgetown captured the varsity heavyweight fours title, and Ohio State outstroked the competition in the lightweight fours before darkness ended the day's racing...
...three models, the Olympus SuperZoom makes what are perhaps the most impressive technological leaps. To keep its weight and cost down, the camera uses a separate viewing window rather than the so-called single-lens reflex design adopted by Yashica and Chinon. To ensure that what the photographer sees matches what is captured on film, Olympus engineers had to link the viewing window to the main lens in such a way that the viewfinder zooms as the lens does. Yashica and Chinon avoided this complication by using the standard SLR prism-and-mirror arrangement that lets one view and shoot...
...cause of the accident. The agency said Captain John Maus and First Officer David Dodds skipped critical parts of their preflight routine and neglected to set the wing flaps to provide enough lift for takeoff. But the Air Line Pilots Association argued that the board gave insufficient weight to the fact that the alarm system on the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 failed to warn the crew that the flaps were not in position. Said Allison Maus, the captain's widow: "It's easy to blame it on the dead guys...