Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world groaning under the weight of more than 50,000 nuclear warheads, who would have thought the most promising attempt to sharply cut that frightening number could be stalled by a dispute over 72 aging missiles? Such a disagreement has emerged as a major obstacle to a U.S.-Soviet accord on intermediate nuclear forces (INF) that would ban medium- and shorter-range missiles in both Asia and Europe...
While the oceans are rising, some coastal land is actually sinking. Much of the East Coast, for example, is made up of silt sediments deposited from rivers, bays and inlets over the past 5,000 to 8,000 years. As the sediments gradually compress under their own weight, the surface sinks lower. On the Gulf Coast, a process called subsidence, caused in part by the extraction of groundwater and petroleum from subterranean layers of sand and clay, has forced the land, already virtually at sea level, to drop 3 ft. a century. In all, the coastline of the northeastern...
...front rank of Democratic presidential contenders, the story Mrs. Dukakis told at the dedication of a drug-treatment center in Norfolk, Mass., would be sadly ordinary. Her problem began when, as a 19-year-old in 1956, she obtained a prescription for diet pills to control her weight. (At 5 ft. 6 in., she then weighed about 130 lbs.; she now weighs 120 lbs.) Years of deceit followed as she began each morning with a small 5-mg dose of amphetamines. In hindsight, she concedes that the drug "contributed to my being hyper" and provided a "false energy level...
...public accusations have lent weight to long-circulating rumors. Evidence of extortion, secret arms sales and drug trafficking remains largely circumstantial, encouraged by Noriega's three spacious houses, his art collection and his frequent holidays in France, all of which he enjoys on a military salary...
...visit to the high-security California Institute for Women in Frontera. "There was a large number of women who wanted to see him," reports Associate Superintendent Don Rasmussen. "Number one, because he's a man, and number two, because he's someone famous." Schwarzenegger spent two hours demonstrating various weight-lifting and stretching techniques, then stayed around to chat and sign autographs. What most impressed the women, says Rasmussen, was not Arnold's biceps but "how small he is in person." (Schwarzenegger's publicist says he is 6 ft. 2 in.) "They expected somebody...