Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole's acceptance speech was big--stern, daring, even at moments Churchillian--but it was marked most by a kind of interrupted eloquence. The speech betrayed the weight of a few too many hands. Even in its strongest, most poetic passages there seemed to be something missing. When Dole stirringly pointed to the exits in the convention hall and declared the Republicans the party of Lincoln, he invited any bigoted delegates to leave, "as I stand here and hold this ground." But the way the section was constructed, it seemed as if he were telling the party it was bigoted...
...uproar? Isn't it business as usual for countries to enforce their views on the world, and doesn't the U.S. regularly throw its superpower weight around? Yes, Washington often berates other countries, promises benefits or denies privileges to get its way. But the Helms-Burton law, which permits Cuban Americans to go to court in the U.S. to sue foreign companies "trafficking" in their property seized by the Castro regime, and Iran-Libya sanctions, which bar U.S. financing and export rights to foreign firms making new investments in Libyan or Iranian oil and gas, are something different. They threaten...
...turned every three or four hours during the night to prevent the skin from breaking down. If the nurses are gentle enough, I won't wake up. I have to sleep at a 90[degree] angle on my side. If I were lying on my back, the weight of my body could create another decubitus wound, and I don't want to go through that again...
...heat and cold. Even better, especially from the seller's standpoint, the rapid improvements can make relatively new equipment seem outmoded. Tents, once made of canvas or nylon, are now composed of fiber glass and aluminum, materials that have shaved a pound and a half from the average tent weight in the past five years. Ranging in price from $200 to $900, today's high-tech tents often feature near-vertical walls, gear lofts, "mud rooms" and windows for star gazing...
...minds and on our cover: Kerri Strug's golden heart and a two-bit pipe bomber's tarnished mind allow us to grapple with the courage and cowardice of the human soul. But sometimes the stories are eerily disparate, hard to balance in our minds because the relative weight of each seems more difficult to calculate the closer together we bring them...