Word: tacks
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...late, globalization's critics have taken a different tack. Among the world's fastest-growing economies are China and India. Not so long ago dirt poor, both nations, once closed economies, have opened themselves up with substantial success. You might think the prosperity of some Indians and Chinese would be something to celebrate. But no. Whether because it is thought that all the rich world's jobs will be "outsourced" to India and China or because people believe that cheap labor in India and China will drive down wages everywhere else, the rise of the two Asian giants...
After the 2000 election, Democrats wasted little time getting down to the business of recriminations. The party’s centrist wing, represented by the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), argued that Gore lost because his populist pandering had turned off white-collar suburban voters. Liberal Democrats took the opposite tack, charging that Gore lost because he failed to rouse the party base...
...marked up 50% or more, compared with monitors of the same size. LCD TVs often have brighter screens and niftier designs that add to the cost of making them, but the real reason the TVs are more expensive is low volume. With fewer TV sets sold, retailers often tack on higher margins. Prices will also be brought down by competition between LCD and plasma screens. At very large sizes, plasma screens?which use electrically charged pixels of gas to create a picture?are cheaper than LCDs, and at sizes over 50 in. (127 cm), your only choice is plasma...
...however, Cserny has one more adjective to tack onto her storied résumé—leader...
...building is exceedingly tough, which in part is why Bush ran against the concept in 2000. This year he claimed he could turn the U.S.'s troubled Iraq enterprise into some kind of success. His Administration's broad failure to adequately plan for the postwar peace left him to tack and turn as the occupation went sour. On the stump, Bush brushed all that aside with loads of optimistic rhetoric about Iraq's democratic future, but his policy is still more sentiment than strategy. Back in the Oval Office, he's going to have to start filling in the details...