Word: weightness
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Although preserving the environment is an issue that cuts across the political spectrum, liberals have traditionally carried the bulk of the weight in the struggle. Indeed, the message of Earth Week is best captured by the popular liberal bumper-sticker, "Think globally, act locally." This week's lectures and discussions about the policy choices involved in environmental conservation offer a global perspective, while the events promoting conservation and recycling teach simple, affirmative steps that individuals can take to do their part...
There is one condition to this knowledge. You have to lose your calorieconscious high school attitude. You won't be able to match your host fry for fry if you are worried about gaining weight...
Where we differ--and I suspect. fundamentally--is in our approach to social thought, the way it should be taught and the relative weight it should be given in any concentration which claims to be educating undergraduates in Social Studies, however liberally defined. gleefully reported in his letter that a member of the Sociology Department told him he would not, today, vote to appoint Talcott Parsons to his department...
...this moral disagreement, rational persuasion doesn't carry much weight, because it is the Corporation--hardly an impartial judge--that decides which arguments to accept...
Unfortunately, these arguments carry little weight with the Corporation, because the fundamental disagreement between proponents and opponents of divestment is not over factual calculations, but moral values...