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Word: weightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Undergraduate Council has not started the New Year off with a bang. In last Sunday night's meeting, the council gave signs that the proposal to cut some of the dead weight from off of the large and unwieldy student government would fail-again. The council also decided to take it upon itself to decide how to spend the $40,000 of student money it lost for almost a decade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off to a Lousy Start | 1/13/1999 | See Source »

...last night's meeting, which was attended by fewer than 50 council members, the dead weight seemed, well, dead. Many members were absent, and many who were present did not speak...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Likely to Reject Proposal to Cut `Dead Weight' | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

When at last the babies, eight of them, were born, five days before Christmas and three months premature, they ranged in weight from 10.3 oz. to 1 lb. 10 oz., the world's first octuplets to be delivered alive. Within a week, the smallest baby, Odera, weighing hardly more than a small bird, died. As of the New Year, doctors, with disconcerting precision, gave the others a 92% chance of surviving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Right? Who Has the Right to Say? | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...everything at once. This one can be tough, especially if you need to lose weight, because your best hope for long-term success requires permanent changes in your diet as well as a boost in your physical activity. But improvements in one area often lead to changes in others. If you're exercising regularly, for example, you're likely to find yourself eating more healthfully as well, so as not to undermine your "investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diet: Try, Try Again | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...Rule out a fatal disease 60% Ensure greater intelligence 33% Influence height or weight 12% Determine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What People Think | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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