Word: tilting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the reason, India's resentment about what it feels is a renewed Washington "tilt" toward Pakistan will not make life easier for William Saxbe, the U.S. new Ambassador to India, who was in Bangkok when the embargo was lifted. Saxbe went to some pains to point out that he opposed the Administration's decision, although he said he was obliged to support it. Even though ranking State Department officials are confident that the storm "will blow over pretty soon," the spectacle of the U.S. ambassador sightseeing in Thailand to delay taking up his post in India...
Ford promised to veto the bill suspending his tariff hike even though more than two-thirds of the Senate voted for it -enough to override a veto. Yet in the hope of sustaining his veto, he moved toward a compromise, what he called "committing ourselves to a gasoline tilt." He was willing, he suggested, to let the price of gasoline rise higher than that of other oil products. While his original program would have entailed a 100-per-gal. boost on all oil products, he would now permit gasoline to absorb most of the price increase. He was also considering...
...Radcliffe varsity opened up with a press that soon confused the Wellesley women which had practiced for only ten days before the hoop tilt. The tenacious defense limited Wellesley star Mary Young to a mere two points in the first half...
Congress is certain to tilt Ford's budget more toward a strong recession-fighting posture than the Administration now seems ready to risk. Even so, the price for past policy misjudgments will be high: record unemployment, and the prospect that the world's biggest and potentially most productive economy will still be running well below capacity for some time to come...
...unresolved current debate illustrates the problem. A women's rights faction recommends making rape prosecutions easier, but that would inevitably collide with the traditional civil libertarian concern for the rights of defendants. Furthermore, the recent activism seems to reflect what even many members agree is an increasingly liberal tilt. In any case, dues-paying members appear to approve the new direction; the rolls have gone from 140,000 in 1970 to 275,000 currently...