Word: tacking
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...hold on a mo', mates. A shrewdly unsettling tack by a New Zealand banker, Michael Fay, aims to sink San Diego's big party. When Fay sent his unconventional fiberglass New Zealand into the elimination series in the last go-around, Conner tweaked the Kiwis, intimating they "wanted to cheat" their way to victory with design legerdemain. Within seven months, Fay had conceived a comeuppance from Down Under...
While some delegates tried to hammer out theirpositions on the issues in Science Center B,keeping the pages busy as they passed notes in aneffort to forge alliances, others took a morefrivolous tack...
Kalb, who does not sport a bow tie, yesterday followed his usual tack in these hour-long interviews sponsored by the Kennedy School's Shorenstein-Barone Center for Press, Politics, and Public Policy of firing questions on a broad range of policy questions. But, as usual, the answers he got rarely went beyond campaign rhetoric...
...reflexive impulse to preserve everything, even the relatively new and banal, occasionally shows signs of getting out of hand. "People are just beginning to talk about ' '50s classics' now, which is a term that embraces some really appalling ticky-tack," says the British-born architectural historian Reyner Banham, who lives in California. "There is a tendency to overlook the aesthetic quality of a building and just keep it because it is old," says Robert Winter, a cultural historian at Occidental College in Los Angeles. "Too often the reason for declaring something ((a historic landmark)) is sentimental." Sentiment is inadmissible...
Because this new scrutiny is an element of Harvard's misguided policy of constructive engagment, it may actually dissuade companies from leaving. In light of the University's track record on South Africa, this new tack should be regarded with suspicion...