Word: tacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hard Attitudes. Peres, in his election campaign, can scarcely take a more pliable tack on establishing settlements and holding on to territory. The latest survey by Israeli Pollster Hanoch Smith indicates that even if there were true peace with the Arabs, 63% of Israeli voters would want to hang on to the Golan Heights, and 40% would want to keep the West Bank...
...hard-driving House Democrats, Arizona's Morris Udall, Carter's old rival in the presidential primaries, and Ohio's John Seiberling, almost certainly will try to tack onto Carter's bills an amendment calling for the dismemberment...
...obvious to college administrators, four-year housing was hardly a sufficient selling point for increasing the Quad's popularity. But oddly, in witnessing this, University Hall officials seem to have taken the opposite tack entirely, and assumed it to be a drawback. In his plan, Fox identified the Quad's "difference" of class structure as one of the reasons for its lack of popularity. Fox's plan remedies the difference, but this alone seems unlikely to raise the esteem of the Quad Houses among freshmen--Fox's original goal; it may even reduce...
...most brilliant and acerbic collagists ever to wield scissors. On the other hand, quite trivial artists are included; probably one cannot have a historical show of women's art without the boring and insipid fribbles of Marie Laurencin, but why include a third-rate vendeuse of exotic surrealist tack like Leonor Fini? In such company, artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Kathe Kollwitz, Nataliia Goncharova and Sonia Delaunay look extraordinary; one's eye goes with relief to Goncharova's crude, provincial but raucously vital cubist portrait of her husband Mikhail Larionov (1913), the face...
Perhaps not, but the rupture remains. As of Jan. 1, a barrel of Saudi or Emirate crude will sell for $12.08; a barrel from the other eleven countries will cost $12.70, reflecting an immediate 10% boost (the eleven propose to tack on another 5% on July 1). The two-tier price works out to about an 8% increase in the average price of oil imported by major consuming nations-enough to put a drag on the global economy. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing estimated that OPEC price boosts since 1973 have hit the French consumer...