Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jack worked hard. He believed in himself, he believed in his coach, he believed in football. And, you know what? The next year he grew, gained some weight and eventually became a great pro player," Bob said. "But you know what the funny thing is Jon?" he asked...
...made the cover of Time, has, at every turn, avoided risking his own image, even for liberal causes in his state. He has not put his weight behind defeating New York's incumbent Republican senator, Alfonse D'Amato. Despite the commitment to compassionate liberalism that he exudes in every apearance, Cuomo has not used his political clout to put fellow liberals in office. Rather, he exhorted and endorsed two unknowns for state-wide Democratic nomination so as to keep himself--and only himself--in New York's liberal spotlight...
...effect was indeed extraordinary. By mid-September there had been 16 deaths among the 137 patients receiving the placebo and only one among the 145 taking AZT. Those being given the drug developed fewer AIDS-associated infections, gained weight and showed growing numbers of helper T cells (the immune-system cells attacked by the AIDS virus) in their bloodstream. The independent review board of AIDS experts, set up by a division of the National Institutes of Health in February, promptly recommended that the study be halted and the drug given to the placebo patients...
Harvard also has choices to make. One is whether it should reward those who distinguish themselves in carrying out the teaching burdens others are anxious only to shirk. The arguments against giving additional weight to teaching when alotting tenure are too tiresome to rehash. They make a lot of sense. It seems at the very least, however, that Lee should have been given the option of staying on at Harvard until his project was finished...
...Daniloff seemed to confirm the suspicion that her husband's cellmate was an informer. When Daniloff was about to be released, she said, the Russian "suggested to Nick that he take out some sort of mathematical formula for him." Daniloff declined. Mrs. Daniloff noted that her husband had lost weight -- "His clothes are just hanging on him" -- and that "he is nervously and emotionally exhausted . . . It is sinking in that he is still a hostage." George Shultz put the best face on the arrangement that he could when he told skeptical reporters who packed the White House pressroom on Friday...