Word: tacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taking another tack, the U.S. could introduce a separate procedural resolution declaring that Taipei is a U.N. member in good standing-despite uncertainties about what it represents-and thus could not, under the U.N. charter, be ousted without a two-thirds vote. If either version were successful, Taipei would stay in the U.N.-and Peking probably would, as it has promised, refuse to take its newly won seat...
Within the next two weeks, Pittenger will write a report on the matter to the league and recommend a new tack. "I think there's a sensible solution to the problem," he said, "and I'll see if I can't get the league to agree to that solution." He refused to discuss his idea...
Pusey cited as "specific examples" the fact that "some express rhapsodic concern for the environment, and spread pollution wherever they go. Some march and chant, smash windows, steal and misrepresent, burn automobiles and buildings, tack posters on trees, spray-paint walls and public monuments, break down bushes, trample grass by the roadside...
...major White House event. The only Marines will be a harpist and flutist providing back ground music in the Diplomatic Reception Room. There is a reason, whispers a White House source: the Nixons feel that the Army has had to suffer so many indignities of late, so much at tack from within, that this is one small way to honor...
...give the Government the leverage it needs to reform the entire health-care system. The Administration stresses the need for a more gradual approach and is courting the congressional center, which is already more attuned to the free-enterprise outlook of the Administration bill than to Kennedy's tack. "We have philosophy going for us," says White House Aide Clark McGregor, "plus the certainty of much higher taxes with the Kennedy bill." The A.M.A. will probably come around to supporting some variation of the Nixon proposal...