Another serious weakness in Mr Putin's structure of power is that there are no counterweights.

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Constructed by Sir William Arrol, it is supported by 1000 ton counterweights and comprises three double cantilevers held together with girder spans.

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The things they lift are so inhumanly heavy that they have no choice but to turn their bodies into massive counterweights.

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It's the real thing with counterweights and science and engineering.

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The fund is run by 47-year-old entrepreneur Steve Milloy, who hopes that it and other funds like it will become counterweights to these antibusiness activists by waging proxy campaigns for proentrepreneurial capitalist measures (including the flat tax).

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