The present system is breaking society and all this dead weight of misery is continuing more and more.
The basis of the distribution of the levy or subsidy is to be live weight or dead weight as the case may be.
About a year ago there was talk of the general purpose oil tanker or ore carrier as being of some 18,000 tons dead weight.
The relationship between dead weight and live weight is indeed important.
Nobody is trying to push the balance between live and dead weight in one direction or the other, but the arrangements will do precisely that.
Our success in getting agreement for a top-up payment for steers and heifers and a dead weight option has been greatly appreciated by the industry.
Even in respect of dead weight, a lot is pure estimate.
They are being a dead weight upon those who are trying to solve the difficult problems.
