Word: weightness
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...union miners consider regulatory breaks. He protested when the state issued new permits to allow for airborne dust generated by more truck traffic to the power plant; he protested when the state granted permission for Mettiki to use a private haul road, and he protested when it increased weight limits on public highways for the mine's trucks. Along with several state legislators and environmental groups, Leone and his fellow miners opposed West Virginia's preliminary decision last March to double the visible-emissions limits for the Mount Storm plant, considered to be one of the 12 dirtiest...
...first hearing, the court's dual, unanimous decisions on assisted suicide (the second addressed a New York case) constituted a heavy weight indeed for the practice's advocates. Led by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, whose wife died in 1991 after fighting ovarian cancer, the court delivered a much anticipated judgment on one of the era's most wrenching dilemmas. "The history of the law's treatment of assisted suicide in this country [is]...rejection of nearly all efforts to permit it," Rehnquist wrote. "The asserted 'right' to assistance in committing suicide is not a fundamental liberty interest..." The Justices also...
Fifth, refidents of the AMERICAN STATES would agree to maintain an unseemly level of DEFERENCE to the members of the royal family and an undue amount of CURIOSITY about their perfonal affairs; and to provide LUCRATIVE ENDORSEMENT OPPORTUNITIES in the field of WEIGHT CONTROL for any former members of the royal family...
...know--as an example of how teenage girls in the 1960s and '70s were taught to be blank images rather than real people. Never mind that the era gave rise to a slew of empowering female singer-songwriters; in Wolf's distorted algebra Tony Orlando cancels out the cultural weight of, say, Joni Mitchell...
...since I thrilled to the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" have I read a piece as eloquent and loving as Rosenblatt's advice to his son. In a society creaking under the weight of the almighty dollar as the ultimate symbol of "worthship," in which the emphasis lies on aggrandizing and glorifying the whole at the expense of individual self-realization and contentment, Rosenblatt's words were a healing balm of inspiration. His son may look back one day and realize, if he has not already, that his father possesses what is arguably the most noble...