Word: tacks
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...Democrats to vote on an education amendment cutting off federal funds to districts that refuse to let Boy Scouts use their schools because the groups won't admit gay members. Two of the endangered districts are in Kennedy's Massachusetts. G.O.P. whip Don Nickles has tax-cut amendments to tack on to next week's patient's bill of rights. And Lott threatens a filibuster to keep Democrats from organizing the Senate under their control if Daschle won't let him have floor votes on Bush nominees that are bottled up in committee...
...This case saw Philip Morris attorneys adopt a new tack; they never denied the carcinogenic effects of tobacco and went so far as to admit their client "makes a dangerous product." Instead, they challenged the idea that PM is somehow responsible for an individual?s decision to smoke...
...Meyer’s new tack left ruffled feathers among Cabot’s former staff, and five high-level investors left the firm in the first year of Meyer’s term...
...first turning mark, we think one of their players tacked very close to first turning mark,” said sophomore sailor Dan Litchfield. “You’re not allowed to tack close to the mark if it means another person change their course...
...this can lend itself to the kind of tired potshots against Wasp repressiveness that sometimes marred Beauty, with the open-casket funeral standing in for suburbia's houses made of ticky-tack. The show can be glib, and there are too many one-dimensional peripheral characters, like episode four's Latino gangbangers. But the leads are richly drawn and well cast; theater veteran Hall finds layers within layers in tightly wound David. In the pilot's finest scene, Nathaniel's funeral, Nate makes a self-indulgent show of refusing to sprinkle dirt on the grave from a tidy canister, protesting...