Word: tacks
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...that time, Venezuela was a robust ally of the U.S., but Ch?vez has taken a decidedly (and often stridently) more anti-Washington tack - even diverting some of his exports to China and India to help break his country's dependence on the market to the North. "The traditional lack of control over natural resources like oil" among developing nations like OPEC's, Ram?rez says, "has done profound damage to our economies for too long. We've created a new, more active awareness about our energy sovereignty...
...workers. Harvard should revert to the old paradigm asking Unicco to prioritize Harvard dining hall workers in the summer employment search. Inflexible hours due to part-time commitments to Harvard and the shrinking number of jobs in the service industry make it nearly impossible for current HUDS workers to tack on additional sources of income otherwise...
...about the mess in Iraq. Bush's polls began to fall, and to halt the slide, the White House ran to the U.N., ostensibly to get help with troops and money but really to calm political anxieties at home. When that effort stalled, the White House tried a different tack: it leaked word to the New York Times that all Iraq policymaking was being centralized at the White House under National Security Council (NSC) adviser Condoleezza Rice, a figure almost as reassuring as Rumsfeld is controversial. The leak was a clear shot at Rumsfeld's war-boss performance, but otherwise...
...high-class burglars in NBC's Heist (Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), planning to take down a Beverly Hills jewelry store, fall into the Ocean's Eleven school of fast-talking, ice-cool swells. (Hustle, a British import nearing the end of its season on AMC, takes a similar tack with a band of con artists.) The robbers (led by Dougray Scott and The Practice's Steve Harris) gab about strippers and Mother Teresa while on a job; the cops who chase them self-consciously reference Lethal Weapon. Created by brothers Mark and Robb Cullen and co-executive-produced by Doug...
...electric utility. So long as that is the case, it's hard to see how solar power can grow into a mass-market business. Many companies are trying to make that happen through technological improvements that boost the output of solar cells. Taiwan's solar startups take a different tack: they're trying to reduce the cost of solar power through more efficient production processes. Motech, for example, "has a cost advantage compared with rivals in Japan and Europe," says Nicholas Teo, who covers the company for Macquarie Securities in Taipei. "Their focus is on efficiency rather than quality." Motech...