Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...solution, in retrospect, was simple. "If you start with a hang-glider- size plane and triple its size up to a 90-ft. wingspan while keeping its weight the same," MacCready explains, "the power needed to fly it goes down by a factor of three" -- to only about 0.4 horsepower, in fact, which a trained cyclist can generate for many minutes at a time...
After that, normalizing the East-West First Lady relationship was easy. Bush had already conceded victory to Gorbachev in the shopping, weight and wardrobe wars. Years of sitting at fund-raising dinners have taught her how to look fascinated by a lecture on multiple warheads, all the while fantasizing, perhaps, about curling up with the latest murder mystery later on. When feigned interest fails, she employs another tactic. Says Rebecca Matlock, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union: "Barbara knows how to change the subject when Mrs. Gorbachev begins, you know, talking like she does." For her part...
...Additional weight ended up being added to the clapper," said Cloutier-Diflo, explaining that the change might have contributed to the second collapse...
...here to tell you that our back is bent under the weight of increasing tuition, fees and housing costs, and the final straw that breaks the camel's back is fast approaching," said Geoff Richelew, a member of the Student Government Association at Framing-ham State College...
...James D. Lightbody '40 of Pepper Pike, Ohio, said that "once we can identify each other we can almost pick up where were communicating before. We all have a little less hair and a little more weight, but many have the same characteristics...