Word: tilting
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...losing—when you lose as many as we’ve lost, do you know how to win? Do you believe you can win?”But with the team still a month away from Ivy League competition, Delaney-Smith sees opportunity in the non-conference tilt.“We’re a much better shooting team than that, but [the players] let [the loss] get under their skin,” she said.“They know how good they can be, because they’ve shown it in every game, except...
...have brave, inspiring leaders, which they don't, and when they are sick of fighting, which they aren't. When that time comes, the U.S. can facilitate negotiations, as it has before, but only if it re-establishes its reputation as a reasonably honest broker. In the past, Washington tilted to the Israelis' side but not so much that the Palestinians couldn't live with it. President Bush has turned the tilt into a slap-down. He says he supports Palestinian statehood, but the Palestinians don't hear the words; they grasp the lack of feeling he evinces for them...
...rage of the man who had become the FSB's chief--Vladimir Putin. To Putin, a former KGB officer, what Litvinenko had done "was a major act of treason," says former KGB Major General Oleg Kalugin, now an exile in the U.S. after having written about Russia's tilt toward authoritarianism. In his book The Lubyanka Gang, Litvinenko, for his part, said he had gone to Putin before the press conference with proof showing which top FSB officers and high state officials were corrupt. Putin, he wrote, promised to take action--but had Litvinenko tailed instead and hired some...
...bulking the device up. Kokinakis says people tend to watch video in 20-min. vignettes while sitting on a train or plane, so the goggles may not need the same battery power demanded of notebook computers. For now, he says, the iPod gadget relieves you of having to tilt your head down or hold your arm up to look at the image...
...metonymic home of Washington's $2.36 billion lobbying business. A gold rush is under way for lobbyists who have an in with the winning team. Firms are hiring away key Democratic congressional staff members and bidding up the salaries of Democrats already in the business. And companies that tilt Democratic are signing clients from industries that previously relied on Republican outfits...