Word: tacking
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...from exile in Jordan, built himself a nice power base in the West Bank Tanzim until Arafat slapped his face a year ago for daring to challenge the Palestinian Authority. Then Arafat elevated another activist, Hussein Sheikh, to take over Barghouti's work among Fatah. And then Arafat changed tack again, publicly kissing Barghouti on the forehead late this summer. Both men claim to lead the Tanzim, both see their prominence in the violence as the path to power. Add to them the radicals of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, bent on wiping out Israel--and diminishing Arafat's authority...
...calmly completed a five yard pass to Eric Johnson to put Yale ahead for good. The extra point made it 17-14 and Yale would later tack on a 79 yard TD run by Rashad Bartholomew to seal the victory...
George W. Bush may want to tie Al Gore to Bill Clinton on everything from morality to oil prices, but when it comes to the politics of the surplus he's taking a new tack: Al Gore's not an incumbent after...
...tack left DLC heads sounding confused. "It sounds as though Governor Bush has endorsed Al Gore and Bill Clinton's agenda of the '90s," said founder Will Marshall, who quickly added that "Al Gore has been pushing the New Democrat initiatives that helped produce today's prosperity." But Bush is hoping to get Gore coming and going. If the veep is his "own man," and a populist to boot, that's fine - he's his own man on the economy...
...ability to make a quick read and accurate throw is not flashy when the ball only travels five yards in the air, but it acts as the catalyst for players like Morris to take those five yards and tack on considerable additional ones...