Word: weighting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...decision to back out of the sale of its European operations this week was a huge embarrassment for German Chancellor Angela Merkel. She had thrown her weight behind the bid by the Canadian-Austrian car-parts maker Magna and its Russian partner, Sberbank, to buy Opel and Vauxhall from the beginning, seeing it as the best way to save German jobs and offering both sides billions of dollars in loan guarantees to grease the wheels. Before GM made its sudden U-turn on Nov. 3, Merkel had also been riding high. She was coming off an electoral victory in September...
Betsy generally speaks fast, too fast, almost. She fiddles with pens or anything nearby, really. But when Betsy is in character, she speaks slowly, pensively, with intent. She leans forward and scrunches her eyebrows together. What she says carries weight in the imaginary universe of Dungeons & Dragons, and the players in the game listen closely...
...three treadmills, one elliptical/cross-trainer, and one bike. It has an array of free-weights and some weight lifting machines and the abdominal weight lifting machine is a nice additional touch...
...three are near each other in the Houses basement—no key necessary. There are two treadmills, three elliptical/cross-trainers, one stair machine, and three bikes in the cardio room. All three rooms are nicely organized. Both the cardio room and the weight room have modern looking flat panel televisions. The weight room even has a picture of the Dunster House mascot (a moose) on the wall...
...anyone following health reform knows, centrism is a political position too. And you see moderate bias - i.e., a preference for centrism - whenever a news outlet assumes that the truth must be "somewhere in the middle." You see it whenever an organization decides that "balance" requires equal weight for an opposing position, however specious: "Some, however, believe global warming is a myth." (Moderate bias would also require me to find a countervailing liberal position and pretend that it is equivalent to global-warming denial. Sorry...