Word: tacks
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...himself down. It's difficult, after all to gain any ground in a very tight race when your opponent seems perfectly happy to perch on the political fence, occasionally dangling a foot toward a position but generally letting voter perceptions wander where they may. By taking an aggressive tack, Clinton may be hoping to sway those perceptions in her favor, dropping hints of doubt about Lazio where none existed before. On the other hand, by lashing out at Lazio in her own voice (instead of capitalizing on the distance created by a negative ad or surrogate), the First Lady could...
...Certainly in the Radcliffe negotiations, you just have to hand it to the man. It's like sailing--you can't go in a straight line. You have to tack," the Overseer says...
...shambles there now--a false peace broken, power-mad rebels imperiling a U.N. mission as they reignite a vicious civil war--defies the international community's good intentions. Many are rushing to tack another "failure" to the list of ill-fated operations from Somalia to Rwanda to Bosnia. The credibility of U.N. peacekeeping is under siege again and so is the wisdom of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's--and the Clinton Administration's--doctrine of humanitarian intervention...
...refuge of doomed business models. When Big Steel and the auto industry were under pressure during the '70s from low-cost imports, their first instinct was not to change their outmoded manufacturing plants but to beseech the courts to bar the outlanders. The record industry has taken a similar tack, charging the purveyors of digital music with violating copyright law and Fair Use agreements. But even favorable rulings like the one the Record Industry Association of America won in district court against popular music website MP3.com provide only temporary respite. Sooner or later, the Darwinian economics of new technologies force...
When cyber-gossip Matt Drudge made public the new tack of Starr's probe, the White House fought back...