Word: tilting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Davis knows taking on Bush and the Republicans through his rich Houston friends is his only shot to stick around in California - when it's all a painful memory, the governor will need a villain besides himself. Nationwide? Putting aside the new tilt that a Republican slaughter in California would do the House, two-thirds of America believe Bush and Big Energy are in bed together, and cooked up this whole crisis as a moneymaking scheme. If a judge agreed and wrote Davis a $20 billion check? At the very least, it gives the Democrats a nice one-two punch...
...almost a million visitors clambered up the 294 steps and peered out over its vertiginous tilt--about 13 ft. off plumb and growing by an alarming .04 in. to .08 in. a year. Pisa's historic Leaning Tower, experts warned, had leaned too far and could topple at any time in the next decade or two. So the 800-year-old white marble structure, one of Italy's most famous monuments, was closed for nearly 12 years and for $25 million of ingenious engineering work to set it a little straighter. Not, of course, entirely straight--Dio mio!--that would...
Various efforts over the centuries to stabilize the 192-ft. (58.4-m) tower had the opposite effect--increasing the tilt until the tower was on the verge of collapse...
...Giant weights stop the tower's tilt...
...note of caution: flat monitors are more sensitive to external light conditions than are CRTs. They also have a narrower viewing angle, so the colors won't look as rich when viewed from the side or from above. It's best to keep the display away from sunlight and tilt the top edge slightly away from you. Then sit back and enjoy the view...