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Word: tacks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Testimony from an ATF agent makes plain that Koresh knew of the raid in advance -- and that top ATF officials were alerted to this before it got under way. Top officials, who steadily maintained that they had launched the raid unaware that Koresh had been forewarned, are now shifting tack. "The element of surprise does not mean they don't know you're coming. Only that they can't take control," says ATF intelligence chief David Troy. That explanation does not wash with the agents who anonymously charge that they were knowingly sent into a deathtrap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Waco Siege Feb. 28: Sent into a Deathtrap? | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

Heidi L. Wald is taking a biochemically oriented tack in studying retinal blood flow in diabetic patients...

Author: By Virginia A. Triant, | Title: Investigating Robots, Diabetes and Memory | 4/6/1993 | See Source »

...tack on 11 penalties, take just 19 shots and line up against a team with fresh legs and a truckload of confidence and the Bulldogs are just chomping at old leather...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Icemen Defeat Tenth-Ranked Yale | 2/13/1993 | See Source »

...dump sites by 1995. The city has been building artificial islands in Tokyo Bay to hold garbage, but cannot continue to do so without threatening both the fishing and shipping industries. Some critics argue that in its obsession with technology, the government has chosen the wrong tack. Notes Keisuke Amagusa, editor of the journal Technology and People: "The government is focusing on garbage collected and not doing anything to reduce the garbage created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Megacities | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...kids in town, we say this with tack...

Author: By G. K. Wenceslas, | Title: Ode to Crimson Beneficence | 12/18/1992 | See Source »

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