Word: tilting
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While the Administration's pro-Iraq tilt in 1989 and 1990 failed spectacularly in the end -- Bush himself admits it "was not successful" -- it had logic at the time. The original impetus was fear of the Ayatullah Khomeini's Iran. Even though Saddam had provoked the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, Washington began helping Iraq to stave off an Iranian victory. The Reagan Administration removed Baghdad from its list of terrorist countries, exchanged ambassadors, overlooked purchases of weapons from U.S. allies and secretly handed over intelligence about Iran's capabilities and intentions...
...them. But no one has proposed him for President or Messiah; and he declares he would not apply for either job. Other listeners abhor the political product but enjoy the spiel. You can find diversion in any aspect of the Limbaugh carnival: the tight-wire walker or the Tilt-a-Whirl, the sideshow barker or the geek. You might even find it salutary to have your own exalted prejudices shaken by him. Last time we looked, Rush was still popular, and the Republic was still standing...
...seeds of the affair were sown back in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq war, when President Reagan approved a "tilt" to Iraq as part of a campaign to keep either side from dominating the Persian Gulf region. That same year, the Reagan Administration scratched Iraq from its list of countries supporting terrorism and, in 1984, for the first time in 17 years, extended full diplomatic recognition to Saddam Hussein's Baghdad government. During the '80s, the U.S. guaranteed billions of dollars in commodity credits and loans to Iraq, while the CIA began secretly sharing intelligence information with Saddam...
Many of the biggest changes in the next century, at least in the developed world, will be driven by the demographic tilt away from children and toward the elderly. A snapshot of a family gathering in 2050 will show lots of gray hair and not too many diapers. Even now, for the first time in history, the average American has more parents living than children. People age 65 and older, who constitute 11.3% of the U.S. population in 1980, will make up 22% of the country by 2050. Moreover, in the next three decades the number of Americans...
...A.B.A.'s tilt to the left on these issues is attributable partly to the increasing political clout of women. In the past 12 years, women have gone from 8% of the legal profession to 21%. Said the A.B.A.'s outgoing president, Talbot D'Alemberte: "The future of this profession lies largely with women, and women care passionately" about abortion. Predictably, the A.B.A.'s action displeased fellow lawyer Dan Quayle, who won a good deal of support last year for his more precisely targeted complaint about exploding legal costs. "The American Bar leadership," said the Vice President last week, "is just...