Word: tacking
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...Asia Injury Prevention Foundation is taking a different tack, promoting helmets as fashion items. The group's commercial arm, Protec, manufactures special "tropical" helmets with air vents, floral designs and racing stripes. Miss Vietnam 2006, Mai Phuong Thuy, has joined the campaign, posing for promotional posters wearing a Protechelmet with a stained-glass motif. Recently, street-side helmet stands have popped up on virtually every corner...
...better to not play her,” Stone said. “I thought our kids did a nice job stepping up.”After sound defense from both sides kept the score stagnant throughout the second period, the Crimson was able to tack on an insurance goal at the 8:50 mark in the third frame. Freshman Katharine Chute connected with sophomore Anna McDonald, who fired a shot at Stock. Though the shot missed left, it deflected off Brown’s Emma Kromm for another Harvard score.Kessler needed only 14 saves to shore up the Harvard...
...should have taken another tack," Masood asserts, "gone for elections and created an environment in Pakistan where rule of law is paramount so that the country would have been placed on much more stable footing...
...hunter even used the Doughboy as an icebreaker. “Who’s in there?” he asked a GM representative. “It’s the Doughboy!” she replied with an enigmatic smile. The student tried a different tack to get the recruiter to talk. “It must be hot in there,” he said. “There are no air holes.” But GM seemed unwilling to acknowledge that there was a person inside the polyester. Brittany...
...Defcon 4: Attack by position. Between attacking by implication and actually naming one's opponent, there's an intermediate step: referring to your opponent only by his or her position. At his rally in New York's Washington Square Park on last week, Barack Obama took this tack: "There are folks who will shift positions and policies on all kinds of things depending on which way the wind is blowing," he told the crowd. "Even your Senator from New York wasn't clear about the Yankees. I know who I'm rooting for." Needless to say, Obama wasn't taking...