Word: tilting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently canceled) made ironic sport of them; programs like VH-1's sporadically clever Pop-Up Video (which displays trivia-filled text about videos as they play) seemed to suggest that they were too tiresome to endure without supplementary information. Still, last winter MTV, which had begun to tilt toward Jenny McCarthy-helmed nonmusic programs, announced that it was recommitting itself to videos and would play 10 to 20 additional hours of music programming every week...
...shouldn't tilt the development in any one direction," said Duehay. The councillor said it is important for tenants and landlords to consider themselves both as independent free enterprises and members of the Square community...
...take into account a small outcropping at the base of the rock. Pushed ever so slightly upward, the rover gently bumped into the rock and began trying to climb it. As one of the rover wheels began rolling up the side of Yogi, sensors aboard Sojourner detected a tilt and shut down the little vehicle, leaving it hung up, in effect, on the rock...
...Richard Hahn, does not disagree. "There's been a consensus that one hospital would be a good goal to strive for," he says. But over the past 15 years, four attempts to merge have failed when the two sides could not agree on whether the new hospital would tilt toward a group practice of salaried doctors or the classic system of independent ones. At Dunn, doctors are all self-employed and work for patients on a fee-for-service basis. "The worst thing that has happened in medicine is the HMO," says Dr. Lawrence Benham, a grandfatherly 84-year...
...Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge: "It's questionable how much he can look like a reformer sweeping the place clean when he's the one who presided over the mess in the first place." If Yeltsin were to carry out his heavily publicized anti-corruption campaign at full tilt, he would risk sending most of his presidential team to the pokey, notes Quinn-Judge. But some heads will roll. Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Konstantin Kobets, recently arrested on corruption charges, was succinct: "They'll try to get rid of me -- a knife in the back and that...