Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was just one problem. The Crimson couldn't produce a wrestler for the 134-lb. weight class. If it couldn't, MIT would receive five points for the forfeit, two more than it would if a Harvard had simply lost the match...
...excellent day for all of the lightweight crews, as Harvard posted three of the four fastest times of the day and swept all five races. The Crimson JV won its race in 6:38.6, and the freshman light weight squad was victorious in 6:47.8, a time fast enough to beat the Cornell varsity crew...
...ethical weight thus seems overwhelmingly in opposition to any pardons. But if the President decides to follow his own moral compass, it will probably be out of a sense of loyalty to those involved and a determination, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote of an earlier pardon, "that the public welfare will be better served...
Jesse enthusiastically had his watch halfway off before one of the schedulers rushed the pulpit in the name of modern political decency. The scheduler swung up the steps at the left of the small riser, but he was intercepted by the Reverend Thompson. Thompson had a weight advantage over the scheduler and placed himself between the frantic man and his mission...
...blinding prints down the runway and showed some inventive accessories, like the kind of mirrored purses backpackers bring back from Third World suqs. But the strain showed too. Some outfits, like a short ballerina-style skirt with a removable poofy apron, suggested that Lacroix was already feeling the weight of his considerable reputation and that it had already got too heavy just to shrug off. He was meeting his own standard, but not besting himself. He was, in a sense, just like every other designer this year: struggling with the challenge that his own success had set down...