Word: weights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Party is simple southern courtesy in Kentucky. The only leader the state party has had for more than a decade is McConnell, who telegraphed the 1994 national Republican rout in his home state. In a special election that spring, McConnell convinced Newt Gingrich to throw the national party's weight behind Ron Lewis, an unknown Christian bookstore owner, who stunned bluegrass politicos by taking the U.S. House seat held for 41 years by Democrat Bill Natcher. (Natcher had died while in office, creating an open seat, which Lewis won by beating a long-time Democratic leader of the State Senate...
...state's leaders recognized that despite its transparent legal system, low taxes and stable government, Singapore (population 4.2 million) really wasn't big enough to challenge Hong Kong or Tokyo as an Asian center for investment and merchant banking. But tiny Switzerland manages to punch way above its economic weight in private banking. Why couldn't Singapore exploit the same opportunity in Asia...
...opposition Socialist Party was in rare agreement with U.S. President George W. Bush in suggesting that France should pony up more troops. As the first part of its modest offering deployed in Lebanon over the weekend, French officials bristled at the suggestion that Paris wasn't pulling its weight. A French general commands the existing 2,000-strong unifil force, which has been monitoring conflict along the border since 1978, and the French government says it is ready to keep that command through February. France will also maintain its naval presence, which has been shuttling evacuees to Cyprus. What...
...Taylor's opinion is remarkably thin on legal reasoning, leaving it vulnerable to getting reversed by the generally conservative Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Worse, the opinion's provocative, almost dismissive, language gives weight to criticism that this decision was more about politics than...
...Three years ago the state legislature approved an unusual program calling for every public school student in the state to be evaluated for obesity using a standard height-weight calculation known as body mass index, or BMI. At the time, figures from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) not only showed that the incidence of child obesity had doubled in the U.S. since 1980, they revealed that Arkansas had one of the highest rates in the nation: 20.9% of the state's youngsters were overweight while another 17% fell into the borderline "at risk" category. Nationally the figures were...