Word: tilting
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Similarly, advanced civilizations in the far future might be able to melt down stars and even entire galaxies to make gigantic campfires, or otherwise tilt the long-term odds in their favor. Life in the waning cosmic twilight might be jejune, but it could last a long time. Consider the marshaled resources of all the natural and artificial intelligences in the observable universe over the next, say, trillion years. Which would you bet on to prevail--that level of smarts or a claim, based on 19th century thermodynamics, that they're doomed...
...down potential competitors or to gain monopolies in new markets. Microsoft's efforts to this end, Jackson ruled, constitute "a deliberate assault upon entrepreneurial efforts" that had the potential to benefit consumers. In this way, Microsoft placed "an oppressive thumb" on the scales of competition, using its power to tilt the market in its favor...
Saturday night's tilt with Penn will be the final home game of the season for the Crimson, and the last in the careers of Harvard seniors Long and Ethan Altaratz...
...going to brag about it? Some saw an economic motive or a Quixotic tilt at the commercialization of the Internet. After all, our phantom had managed to interrupt one of Wall Street's sacred rituals: the dotcom IPO of Buy.com which was hit by a DOS attack on Tuesday afternoon, before the end of its first day as a publicly traded company. The stock had reached a peak of $30.25, then closed at an unspectacular $25.12. Just when Buy.com chief executive Gregory Hawkins should have been popping champagne corks, he was hunkering down in an emergency session with his techies...
...someone who enjoyed The Talented Mr. Ripley, I point all this out in the spirit of constructive criticism--some notes, you might say, for the remake. Next time, the tension between Tom and Dickie could be over how hard you can hit the machine without causing it to tilt, or whether you get more lire to the dollar in Zurich or Trieste. Gwyneth would be nowhere in sight...