Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often wound up being boarded in hospitals for months, tended by ever-changing shifts of nurses. Such institutional care not only leads to emotional troubles down the road but can also actually cause "failure to thrive," a medical term for a condition in which infants do not gain enough weight and fail to develop normally. It has been loosely translated as a loss of interest in life. Older children may be shuttled through a series of foster homes, never learning to love or trust a soul. Staying at home with an addicted mother who is actively participating in a rehabilitation...
...current political climate, these arguments are not likely to carry much weight. The entire debate over the ATF has been skewed by the Air Force's impressive performance in Operation Desert Storm. Congressional Democrats who opposed the use of force against Iraq are looking not for defense projects to oppose but for defense projects they can support. The ATF in its current configuration is a lot of airplane -- probably too much airplane for the job it has to do. But the smart money in Washington says that when the votes are in, the Pentagon will get most...
...Among the guys here, the average height and weight has dropped about three inches and 20 pounds, but most of it's in shoulder girth," says Valerie C. Nellen...
...Harvard men's heavy-weight crew team continues to dominate like it did this past weekend, it will soon compile more hardware than Dickson Brothers...
Print the quote, whatever the source. For Kelley, all sources are treated as equal. The recollections of an unnamed secretary repeating thirdhand gossip are given the same weight as on-the-record comments from actual witnesses. (And sometimes more weight.) This ascribes far too much authority to what may be nothing more than idle gossip or office chitchat. It also fails to account for sources who may have their own axes to grind...