Word: tacking
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...higher education comparable to those of other departments are fair. In the past, governors have often left cuts vague or targeted universities’ general funds, leaving choices up to college administrators—who usually reduce every budget except for their own. Romney has taken a different tack; he has called for a program that would completely restructure the public universities’ administration, while making them more self-sufficient by increasing tuition...
...some basic level these people should be pitied for their gullibility and financial losses, and that’s certainly the tack taken by the Secret Service, which refers to these saps as “victims.” To be sure, there are some victims like the American who was murdered in Lagos, Nigeria in 1995 while pursuing the Nigeria scam. Yet this exception only proves the rule. No one deserves to die for attempting to steal this money, but it seems fair that they lose their money, since they are, after all, attempting to take part...
...national-security advisers to Camp David to plot America's retaliation for the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington. As the group began to hammer out a strategy for war against the Taliban, Paul Wolfowitz, the 57-year-old Deputy Defense Secretary, took a different tack. An Afghan war in his view had the makings of a quagmire. The larger threat to American security was sitting not in a cave in Afghanistan but in a Baghdad bunker. And so, just four days after Sept. 11, Wolfowitz urged Bush to go to war against Iraq...
...should not invade Iraq without first offering proof that Baghdad is producing weapons of mass destruction. And in the event of the U.S. offering its own proof in the event that the UN inspectors find nothing, 54 percent supported an invasion while 38 percent opposed it. Those figures tack with a poll released this week by the LA Times, which found that 72 percent of Americans believe the Bush administration has not yet provided the evidence that would justify going to war in Iraq...
...when it became clear that the petitions might languish at the BIA, the Lyttons and their backers had everything in place to take a new tack. They approached George Miller, longtime Congressman from the East Bay, whose district includes San Pablo. The ranking Democrat on the House Resources Committee, Miller did what only a senior member of Congress could: he plugged a three-sentence amendment into an unrelated bill that gave the Lyttons their reservation. Later, there would be outrage over the amendment. Frank Wolf, a Republican Congressman from Virginia, called it a disgrace. But for 200 Lyttons and their...