We didn't think data submission to a trade association was a high-risk part of what we were running when we had a trillion-pound balance sheet that needed to be managed.
With 170 kilograms (375 pounds) balanced precariously above him, he looked left, looked right, then snapped his head to center, looking out at the crowd and laughing as if it were so easy.
He weighed 122 pounds but balanced all duties.
With his 150-pound frame balanced in the cart, he seemed as light as a feather.
The muscular bronze Titan, weighing 4,000 pounds, is balancing the world -- represented by four interlocking spheres -- on his shoulders.
The M2HBs had been sent to the training camp without ammunition, so the Kurdish soldiers sat on short concrete risers in front of a 125-pound weapon, balancing notebooks on their knees as the instructors drew on a dry-erase board.
There are no weight classes, but finesse can sometimes foil sheer bulk: an agile smaller wrestler, if he's sufficiently skilled, can catch a 400-pound behemoth off balance.
The council is instead endorsing a quota of nearly 16 million pounds, trying to balance the fate of the fluke with the economic needs of those who catch them.
Chamberlain, on advice from his officials, declined to restore the gold standard, realising that a devalued pound would improve the balance of trade.
The original Flyer was built to haul, in perfect balance, 90,000 pounds of fish.
As he prepares for the New York City Marathon, raising money for Lance Armstrong's foundation, Higgins has lost 55 pounds and gained the balance that his success failed to provide.
