Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mars Global Surveyor, which NASA will launch this week, is one of these new spacecraft. Tipping the scale at 2,337 lbs., it is less than half the weight of the 5,672-lb. Observer. Just as important, it cost only $135 million--milk money next to the Observer's near billion-dollar price...
...entire weight of federal law enforcement and the global media bear down on one very ordinary man, convinced that he's guilty--and it turns out he's innocent. "Richard Jewell is a poster boy for the Bill of Rights and for why we must do more to protect individual liberty," declares Mark Kappelhoff of the American Civil Liberties Union. Welcome to the real world, counters James Tierney, a former attorney general in Maine and now a legal consultant. "People get chewed up every day. The only difference in this case was that it was on national...
...like Louis and his gray ponytail (recently clipped off). I like the way he always wears sneakers, even to formal dinners. I like the unapologetic conviction with which he speaks about the great millennial Wired enchilada: the collapse of governments and economies under the weight of a gajillion interconnected, deregulated fiber-optic strands; the rise of the global village; the triumph of one-to-many communication; the demise of the clueless press. So what if he's such a tightwad that he makes his employees buy their own pens? His vision of the future inspires a dedicated young staff...
...learned from a young age that you should never reveal your weight, your salary or who you vote for. So while I will never tell who I am voting for in this election--check my bumper stickers, window signs and pin-up posters in my room if you want to try to deduce it--for the sake of illustration I will make an exception to the rule and let you peek inside my first trip to the voting booth...
...remember correctly, my vote did not carry all that much weight in the outcome. My school was fairly progressive, and Reagan lost by a mile. But my eighth grade mind was still idealistic--I liked knowing that my vote was part of the final tally, and that...