They were attempting a throw quadruple salchow, a jump so difficult it had never been landed in competition, but it was seemingly their only chance for Olympic gold.
In Eisner's hand was the threat that Disney could, if that happened, make its own sequels to Toy Story, using Woody and Buzz and all of the characters that Lasseter had created.
In the precious metals, where a small difference in the quantity makes a great difference in the value, even the business of weighing, with proper exactness, requires at least very accurate weights and scales.
To an impartial student who gravely doubted whether the Czar himself acted as a conscious force or an inert weight, the straight-forward avowals of Roosevelt had singular value as a standard of measure.
Now you'll notice that because people didn't usually carry around a standard set of weights they used coins as both the unit of worth and the unit of weight.