And its traffic volume has more than doubled during the past 30 years, while trucks have gotten heavier.
Like Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard," the prototype could plausibly argue that it has not gotten lighter -- the other kilograms have gotten heavier.
Because Americans have gotten heavier over time, retailers have had to adjust their sizes upward to keep their "medium," which today corresponds to a size eight or ten in the U.S., as the most popular size.
How many people do we all know, including of course ourselves, who eat and drink too much of the wrong things and, despite modern medicine, have gotten heavy and out of control?
"You've got heavy flow," I congratulate MC Chunky, realising I've picked the phrase up from a packet of my girlfriend's Tampax.
And in the time in takes for thirsts to be slaked, the rain has got heavy enough for the umpires to take them off.
They've got heavy-gauge free improvising from the pianist Cooper-Moore and saxophonist Darius Jones; postpunk textures from the guitarist Brandon Seabrook; and solid grooves from Mr. Cleaver and the bassist Pascal Niggenkemper.
"You look at buildings, hospitals, roads, where you've got heavy CFMEU involvement – they talk about a 40% additional cost in building a block of units because of CFMEU involvement – and obviously that has some behaviours, including driving builders to use this product which is completely unacceptable," he said.
