Word: tilting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: Sen. John McCain, the Quixote of campaign finance reform, has a new windmill to tilt at: Getting the long-stalled tobacco deal signed into law. An early draft summary of the bill reveals that McCain's Senate Commerce Committee, needing to please Democrats, Republicans, the White House and C. Everett Koop all at once, has come up with a far harsher version of the agreement that Michael Moore and the state Attorneys General hammered out with Big Tobacco in June...
...earlier immunity deal with Lewinsky. And Clinton lawyer David Kendall wants Johnson to plug grand jury leaks he says are coming from Starr. During Watergate, John Sirica used the same judicial perch to prod along the investigation of President Nixon. Court watchers familiar with Johnson's pro-government tilt wonder which way it will lead her: to favor the special prosecutor who formally represents the government, or the President he seems intent on bringing down...
...something of a sport to look at the younger picture and compare it to the older. In most cases, the postures and poses (the tilt of the head, the half-smile) are uncannily identical. It seems like the transformation could be effected by nothing more than a thorough stone-washing. In other cases, the resemblance is strong enough but not striking; are we looking at the middle-aged man's younger self, or his son? In a minority of cases, there is hardly any resemblance to speak of. Throughout, tough, meaty fellows seems to have aged into sober, tender dads...
...Crimson has two remaining games on its home slate--a Sunday afternoon tilt with Sacred Heart and a March 18 matchup with MIT--before its spring training trip to California, and will close its season with the Ivy League Championships at Dartmouth in April...
...Radicalism has been replaced by realism, dogma by day-to-day action. Pragmatism has been used to explain everything from economic reforms in Eastern Europe and communist China and the shift of power away from Marxist apparatchiks, to the 1992 victory of Bill Clinton and the centrist tilt of the "New Democrats...