Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arafat the cascade of events felt like an avalanche. By being lax on security issues, he had flirted with trouble, and the extremists had taken advantage. Before the bombing, the U.S. was prepared to lean on Netanyahu to make concessions that would restart negotiations, but now, suddenly, the full weight of American pressure has been shifted onto the Palestinians. In addition, the sting of Israel's reprisals comes at a time when Arafat's government is squirming under revelations of corruption...
...report is not exactly an endorsement of toking to cure what ails you. But it does support further research into the medical benefits of marijuana. The panel reviewed reports that smoking weed can control nausea for some cancer patients, help prevent weight loss among AIDS patients and help relieve eye pressure in people suffering from glaucoma ? ground already covered by experts out West. Widespread legalization won't happen any time soon, but what this could mean is a ceasefire...
...wheezed and groaned and squeaked and thumped and sprayed. Actually there were five presses over the century of the Free Press, but in most minds they are all one, each rising out of the one before. My companion and teacher was No. 3, a flatbed machine of such weight and exuberant horsepower that it ultimately cracked the brick walls of the building. On stifling summer nights in the Depression and the war years, with all the windows open, the thudding of that press could be heard up and down the alleys and street. The people would take off their aprons...
...turn of our press to sing, I would climb up on the pressman's platform, and for a moment or two my small perch became Olympus. I would riffle the paper in place on the feedboard and then punch the first power button to stir the dead weight of the steel and lead. The press would groan and move and finally plunge back and forth like a stallion in harness, air cylinders hissing and gasping as they cushioned each surge. I would stand a few seconds absorbing the rumble and relishing the power and the meaning. The evening's drama...
...middle-class and upper-middle-class homes the following scenario is played out daily. Wife and Husband have decided to buy a new family car, their last one having been rendered immobile by the accumulated weight of gum wads, empty juice boxes and broken plastic toys from McDonald's Happy Meals. Do they go with the stolid minivan or the racy sport-ute? They consult consumer guides. They compare prices. They make, if they have the stomach for it, a few desultory visits to a variety of reptilian car salesmen. And they gather promotional brochures...