Word: tacking
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Although antiwar forces lost their fight to fix a withdrawal date, Mansfield will almost certainly tack such an amendment, with a May 1972 deadline, onto the $21 billion military-procurement bill. It will thus become a fresh vehicle for the antiwar forces...
Like most conglomerates, Media General, Inc. has been concentrating on acquisitions. It has picked up the Newark Evening News and four smaller papers to add to its original pair in Richmond. Now it is taking a new tack, creating rather than buying a paper. Crammed with charts and up-to-the-minute analyses of 3,250 stocks, the 72 pages of Media General Financial Daily consist almost entirely of figures. They amount to a sort of stock-market racing form. The price: a dollar...
...Stone's attempted monumentality is often undone-even on its own terms-by a sense of kitsch. Thus (to take only one example) the walls of the opera house are padded with red material which-as in leathery club bars-is buttoned in panels with rows of brass tacks. But real tacks would be lost in so big a space. The solution? Fake brass tack heads, Oldenburg jumbo, four inches across...
Practicing in Jail. After the OEO grant expired in 1969, an energetic new dean, Brian Brockway, now 37, kept the school on its new tack. Instead of OEO stipends, the students earned course credits for their services to the poor. "There's more to a legal education than just knowing how to operate within the system," says Brockway. "A good lawyer should know the methods by which the system can be changed...
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...