Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...council elections? One would think that it would be a source of great interest to students. Even if the council itself is not well-regarded, one would think this election--simply because it is the only opportunity for a campus-wide popularity contest--might carry some weight. But remarkably, it doesn't. Despite the lofty title bestowed upon the winning candidates, the victors are belittled by our indifference...
...even more complicated than fame. We may all be graded on the same scale and then sorted into the same academic groupings, but that's about the extent of the uniformity of academic experience. Does an A received in a VES or computer science course carry the same weight as one in government or economics? And which is more admirable--four years spent engaging Kant, Plato and Nietzsche, or 50 hours a week researching in the biology labs...
...They can certainly make or break an election, but if the candidate does not pull their weight, they will not win," Burton said...
...risk is identified early, doctors may be able to prevent heart disease by prescribing exercise, which may help to redistribute weight...
There is a good argument to be made that Pinochet's extradition has been less than fair, and in a recent Wall Street Journal article, former British foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind claims exactly that. Pinochet's arrest would give international weight to the rulings of a single Spanish judge; his arrest, if demanded by unitary actors as it is now, would be clearly biased and unfair: "The proper courts of law for international criminals," Rifkind claims, "are international courts...