Word: tacking
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...Occupy the Middle.In post-Jeffords Washington, Bush will have to tack to the middle. You can make his move seem even more artificial and transparent by staking out the middle as your own natural terrain. By the time he gets there, it will seem like he's trespassing...
...will the Bush team sail on its current tack? Hard to say, especially given the many signs of division between Powell's State Department, on the one hand, and Vice President Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon, on the other. But just as America shouldn't summon into existence the threats it wants to defend against, Europe shouldn't hasten a rift it doesn't want by talking up the danger to the Atlantic alliance. These are still early days. Bonds built over more than five decades shouldn't be called into question, even rhetorically, after 15 weeks...
...That's a rationale for building new ones. If that were to happen, though, Wall Street could lose its radioactive crush. The past generation of nuclear plants ran way over budget, taking more than a decade to finish and ultimately costing around $5 billion each. Back then, utilities could tack that onto customers' bills. But today shareholders may not be happy to take that risk...
...will take a more disinterested tack on the living wage issue, according to Jonathan C. Page `02, a roommate of two years...
...said Wednesday, "As director, I have taken responsibility. The buck does stop with me." But he then proceeded to blame everyone else. He even argued that the discovery petition from McVeigh?s defense lawyers was unusually broad, which is a strange tack to take. He then cited examples of misinformation and various miscommunications between field agents and command posts...