Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrain. When Abby Perkins (Michele Greene), one of the firm's young associates, tried last fall to get a pair of feuding former business partners to settle their contract dispute out of court, there was a hint (rare on L.A. Law) that she might not be pulling her weight at the firm. The doubts, however, were short-lived: her clients made up, praised her effusively in front of the boss -- and got her a big raise to boot. No good deed goes unrewarded at McKenzie, Brackman. The show says you can have your ideals and your...
...Rustad, of the Minneapolis school district, where children who "fail" kindergarten are placed in transitional classes. Defenders of the Georgia test policy point out that the CAT is not the only tool used to determine who passes and who stays behind: the kindergarten teachers' recommendations are given equal weight. Edward F. Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale, nonetheless worries about the lasting impact of flunking a formalized test: "If a child at five is given the message that he or she is a failure, a self-fulfilling prophecy may be perpetrated." And he offers what many colleagues may regard...
...explains his notion of textual lightness, for example, with the story of how Perseus slew the Medusa. In Calvino's allegory, the Medusa, whose gaze turns men to stone, freezes language with paralyzing weight. Perseus destroys the Medusa with lightness: he flies above her, and he only looks at her indirectly, in the mirror of his shield. Indirection and change are as important to Calvino's lightness as the subtraction of weight...
This little ball could do it all. And you didn't have to worry about your arm falling off. The whiffle ball had no weight, but it danced...
...kidding around with the coach and said that I would throw the weight," Collins says. "Next thing you know, I'm in the circle throwing. I never expected that in my life...