The weight rising on one side of the pulley is offset by the weight falling on the other side.

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What she will vividly recollect, however, is falling onto her back and feeling the weight of Buller as he comes down on top of her.

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Our columnists disagree, but the weight of opinion is that it will keep falling because of war, trade deficits and fatigue with American equity markets.

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The GDP deflator thus gives more weight to goods (such as capital goods) whose prices are falling the fastest.

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