Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decade ago, Nissan was synonymous with Japan Inc., the business goliath that was devouring America. The auto company's fuel-thrifty sedans and zippy 240Z sports car put the fear in Detroit long before the Toyota Camry or Honda Accord ever saw a drafting table. Nissan's success gave weight to the myth that Japanese companies were run by enlightened executives who worked in frictionless synchronicity with workers to produce superior cars. In his best-selling book The Reckoning, David Halberstam suggested that U.S. industry, namely the Ford Motor Co., would be consigned to a never-ending game of catch...
...contract with each heartbeat. Joseph Vacanti's group has grown a tube of sheep-muscle cells around a polymer, added closely packed lining cells to the inside and stitched it into a sheep's pulmonary-artery circuit. Blood pulsing against the walls gradually strengthens the muscle cells, just as weight training builds biceps. To make smaller vessels, Laval's Auger bends a sheet of muscle cells around a plastic tube and reinforces it with an outer layer of stiffer cells. Then he removes the tube and seeds the inside with lining cells, which soon grow together. The vessels have worked...
...tempted to skip. Yet, the more exercise physiologists learn about stretching--which causes the ligaments, tendons and muscles to lengthen--the more benefits they find. It helps maintain flexibility and range of motion, eases muscle soreness and improves recovery time. In addition, new research suggests that stretching combined with weight training can actually make you stronger faster than weight training alone...
...good with a House Committee--because they have lots of money to spend. And their job is to spend it on you. House Committee representatives report standard purchases: air hockey and foosball tables, seasonal hiking and skiing trips, sophomore orientation activities, big-screen TVs, Grille kitchens, weight room and athletic equipment and film screenings...
Former treasurer of the Kirkland House Committee Sam Yagan '99, admits that allocation of HoCo funds are "based on the whim of the people present at any particular meeting." Inevitably, committees favor certain investments: Kirkland's HoCo subsidizes the Boat Club; Cabot's Weight Room "Czar" Marty Thiry '00, requested $3,000 to refurbish the weight room, and Lowell's HoCo succeeded in extending dining hall hours. Apportioning is also made in the name of the zany and the philanthropic, from Leverett HoCo's $200 kazoo purchase for their Winter Carnival to Kirkland House's support of a dining hall...