Word: slants
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...can’t do.I can recognize zone coverage. I can recognize man-to-man, and I recognize blitzes. I know that as a punt returner, you plant your heels on the 10-yard line and don’t back up. I know the difference between a slant, a post, and a quick out.But there’s a lot I can’t do, as well. For starters, I can’t draw up a scheme on either side of the ball much more complex than what I see on Madden. You’re right...
...getting crowded in the kitchen, the locus of australian political sloganeering. For most of the year, Labor leader Kim Beazley has been claiming his party's slant and policies are informed by the concerns of middle Australia-not the fripperies of abc Radio National listeners or Sydney's droning talk shops. Beazley's relentless message is that Labor is focused on the "kitchen table" issues that preoccupy families. Such as? Interest rates, petrol prices, schools, job security and Iraq. And because McMansions have formal dining rooms, and maybe because wine is so cheap, our dinner-party talk now extends...
Another firm boasted in its advertisements in this newspaper about how it “put a poet in charge of designing an automated trading block.” I can see Emily Dickinson scrawling slant rhyme over a life of corporate drudgery now—I had never entertained the thought / of running Lehman’s automated trading block...
...much. The network famously calls itself "fair and balanced," but "fair and balancing" would be a better description: Roger Ailes repeatedly describes his news network as a counterweight, on the right, to the rest of the news media. His argument that nearly every other mainstream media outlet slants left is self-serving and mostly wrong. (The MSM really slant toward the institutional, establishmentarian center, which is a bias as dangerous as any other.) But while "fair and balanced" may be propaganda, it doesn't seem to be fooling anyone. Conservatives see Fox as a comfortable haven for their worldview; their...
Walt and Mearsheimer's central thesis is that a pro-Israel slant pervades American foreign policy toward the Middle East, and that it is the result of a powerful pro-Israel lobby comprised of a “loose coalition of individuals and organizations...