Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...customary high wattage of optimism last week in Ottawa as he addressed Canada's 386-member Parliament. His topic: the possibility of a Canada-U.S. agreement that may soon create the world's largest free-trade zone. Amid fierce applause, the President promised to throw the full weight of his office behind that much discussed but never quite accomplished prospect. Said Reagan: "To those who would . . . fight a destructive and self-defeating round of trade battles, Canada and the U.S. will show the positive...
This year's Passover in Israel, however, will not be a totally festive occasion, for the country's mood is one of anxiety and uncertainty rather than hope and promise. Israel's national spirit is sagging under the weight of a succession of embarrassing scandals. These include the Shin Bet affair, in which two Arab terrorists were killed while in the custody of Israeli security officials in 1984, and Jerusalem's role in the Iranscam arms deals and the Jonathan Jay Pollard spy case, which involved an American Jew spying on the U.S. for Israel...
...usual argument against the concentration goes something like this perhaps women have been slighted in the treatment of various established academic disciplines, and perhaps these fields ought to give greater weight to women's views and issues. However, women's views and issues should not be treated as an independent field because, while it offers new approaches to existing disciplines, the function of Women's Studies is more one of criticism than of innovation...
Harvard won only two events in the men's meet. Junior James Russell, who placed third in the 35-lb, weight throw in the NCAA indoor championships last month, won the hammer throw with a toss...
Usually there was nothing to see, except for a mass of highly trained adults, covering one of their profession's most coveted assignments, shifting their weight and waiting for the President like courtiers. All this for a simple TV visual or possibly and answer to a single question...