Word: tilting
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...Japan is suddenly registering on Washington's radar screen again, it's because a Japan in free fall coupled with a U.S. slowdown could imperil the world's economy. A deflated yen, already at 20-month lows, could tilt the trade imbalance further in Japan's favor. And the noise of a bursting stock-market bubble heard across the U.S. last week sounded eerily similar to what Japan experienced a decade ago. "It wasn't a miracle for Japan in the 1980s," says Tadashi Nakamae, an economist who co-authored the alarmist tome Wake Up, Japan! "And it wasn...
...chase. With a flourish, Fai slaps on a cool, floppy plaid racing cap, like the ones worn by Cuban jazz trumpeters. It's a bold hat, but it's a bold night and the glint in Fai's gaze makes you think his magnets are spinning full tilt...
...most active in South America, with a history of violent eruptions dating back to the Spanish conquistadores. But the mountain seemed calm that fateful morning in January 1993 when Williams and 11 other volcanologists hiked over Galeras' rim to take its pulse--measuring tiny fluctuations in tilt, gravity, gas emissions and other signs of volcanic life. The scientists and a handful of tourists were spread out across the crater, just starting to head back, when a small landslide signaled the start of something...
...years, McCain has been up against a 60-vote hurdle - thanks to a promised filibuster from Mitch McConnell - to get his legislation into floor debate, and for each tilt at the windmill McCain enjoyed unanimous Democratic support. This year, with the Senate at 50-50 and McCain still enjoying some political pop from his equally quixotic presidential run, McConnell and Trent Lott have had to cut a deal with Bush's No. 1 saddle burr and give McCain-Feingold its due chance at becoming...
While the women's dominant victory over Yale was somewhat expected, the men entered last night's tilt with the Elis with a much taller order...