In recent years countries including the UK, Mexico and South Africa have introduced measures to help police officers lose weight, as expanding waistlines and reduced fitness hamper the fight against crime.

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"Bakeries have an obligation to ensure that the weight of loaves meets the minimum weight standards laid down, and should have measures in place to check this, " he said.

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The statewide teacher-evaluation system would be very different than the city's pilot program, with most of the weight put on principals' opinions and other subjective measures.

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With a 13.3-inch diagonal widescreen display, the laptop has a starting weight of just three pounds4, measures about one inch thin and features a premium raised tile keyboard and a long battery life rating.

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"The regulator concludes that so much weight on one grade in one subject as part of accountability and performance measures created perverse incentives for schools in the way they marked controlled assessment and led to the over-marking, " the report says.

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Capping magazine capacities, toughening mental health screening, and similar measures need not be loaded with that kind of weight.

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Speaking earlier this year the Liberal Democrat-controlled Bath and North East Somerset (Banes) council said the weight limit was one of several measures being considered.

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