Word: tilting
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This, after all, is the arena of human evolution, where no theory dies without a fight and no bit of new evidence is ever interpreted the same way by opposing camps. The next big discovery could tilt the scales toward the multiregional hypothesis, or confirm the out-of-Africa theory, or possibly lend weight to a third idea, discounted by most -- but not all -- scientists: that H. erectus emerged somewhere outside Africa and returned to colonize the continent that spawned its ancestors...
However much their leaders may defend the Cairo agreement, it has generated antipathy among Palestinians in the territories, who think its terms tilt heavily in Israel's favor. "We got almost everything we wanted," says Uri Dromi, head of Israel's government press office. "Why should I apologize for our success?" That is just what troubles Dr. Eyad Sarraj, who runs a mental- health clinic in Gaza. "Under this agreement, we will have an occupation in everything but name," he says. "Instead of being next door to me, the Israeli army will be a few meters farther away. Gaza will...
...course, "1970s: The Sequel" is intertwined with the general leftward tilt in American politics...
...aren't the first ones to come up with such zingers. Over a century ago, Rudyard Kipling called San Francisco a "mad city" full of "perfectly insane people." Frank Lloyd Wright once hypothesized that all the loose nuts in America end up in Los Angeles because of the continental tilt. California is La-La Land, Shangri-La La, a place that twice elected a guy nicknamed "Moonbeam" governor. Yes, getting a good dig in at California is a bonafide American tradition...
...Davis: Which was correct. And they should not have. Because I can't make a commitment to anybody, other than to make sure we have a smooth transition. Otherwise I would be tilting, and I won't tilt...