Word: tacking
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...kids in town, we say this with tack...
...Clintons adroitly navigated Washington's political shoals last week, trickier decisions loom ahead. Many of the Governor's more liberal advisers note that the man who has been criticized for trying to be all things to all people has taken a distinctly centrist tack of late. Last week Clinton named former South Carolina Governor Richard Riley to be the transition team's lead headhunter. Nor is Riley the only moderate Southerner on board: Al From, head of the Democratic Leadership Council and the transition's domestic-policy chief, is seen as increasingly influential. "The folks who expected the Trojan horse...
...list follows much the same tack. Some of those on it start up campus controversy; others devote their college careers to supporting the status quo and upholding Harvard's biggest student organizations...
...just tack on Harvard Crimson Rookie of the Year for good measure...
...Berkery, then a precocious freshman coming off the bench, and it took (in Kleinfelder's words) "the gnat-fly." That was Hansen, coming off the bench when Harvard was behind Maryland, 4-0, in the first half. Using her aggressive quickness, she, along with Gaffney paralyzed the Terrapin at tack...