Word: tilting
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...wouldn't detract from her greatness if she lost, they agreed before the race, but wouldn't it be something if she won? "She's just special - and she's a mare, having a crack at history against the boys," says Michelle. It proved more than a tilt. By the time he and Makybe were "a mile out," jockey Glen Boss knew the record was theirs: "That's the best part of my job, when you're out there and it's just you and her." Still, it was impossible to ignore the roar of the crowd, which, as they...
Bernanke, 51, seems suited to that task in ways big and small. Both men are independent thinkers who tilt gently to the political right. Greenspan is a consensus builder who rarely convenes a meeting without knowing every vote. Bernanke built a similar reputation running the economics department at Princeton from 1996 to 2002. "When he took over the chair, there was a lot of infighting and bickering," recalls Gene Grossman, a colleague at Princeton. "He made it one of his objectives to get more consensus on decisions." Greenspan and Bernanke play the saxophone and possess a wry sense of humor...
...Robin Munro of the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin, a workers' rights group. Campaigners are working in the one area where China has true democracy. The vast majority of villages are allowed to elect their local chiefs, although many elections remain improperly run or rigged. Activists hope to tilt the balance toward fairness...
...vast majority of U.S. drug research is conducted by pharmaceutical companies, but few experts trust them to do head-to-head matchups. It's just too easy for a company to tilt the odds in its own favor by choosing the weakest rival drug or by playing around with dosages or the patient-selection process...
...every single room, ?except in the shitters of course.? He notes how both men have been made to look nearly identical, "same size, same age, same suit. That way nothing ever changes. It's always the same head at the helm." He even notices that the portraits always tilt slightly downward, preventing glare and intensifying the gaze...