Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Government has eased its controls lately so that dealers may now pass their increased costs for rent on to consumers. The DOE'S new "tilt" clause offers much the same opportunity to the oil companies. Enacted three weeks ago, the measure will allow oil companies to pass their higher gasoline refining costs on to the dealer, thus probably setting off a new round of rises for the nation's drivers...
Revolution in Iran. A souring of the important U.S. special relationship with Saudi Arabia. A looming economic crisis, and soon, caused by oil shortages and runaway price boosts. A danger that much of the region might change its tilt away from the U.S. and toward the Soviet Union. A Middle East peace seemingly more elusive than ever. These are the troubles and threats that America faces in the so-called crescent of crisis-that great swath of countries running from the Horn of Africa through Egypt and across the Middle East to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Here, more than...
...short of any direct threat of retaliation. The Soviets continued to badger Washington with charges of complicity, direct or indirect, in the Chinese invasion. Washington's "evenhanded" policy of castigating both the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and the Chinese invasion of Viet Nam was scornfully dismissed as a tilt toward China. It was that insistent Soviet view which torpedoed a United Nation's Security Council effort to devise a cease-fire formula. Western and Third World members lined up behind a proposed resolution calling for reciprocal withdrawal of both Vietnamese and Chinese troops. China indicated that...
...interested in some intra-Harvard hoop action, then arrive at the IAB for Friday night's preliminary game between the JV's and the Harvard Classics. These two teams have played each other twice already this year; each team has one victory and one loss. Friday's tilt will be the unofficial sub-championship game...
Like any Harvard-Yale tilt, this contest was a grudge match. The Crimson hadn't lost to the Elis since 1961, but the squad barely survived a 5-4 scare last season at New Haven. The Yalies, tired of "so close but no...," were looking to light the victory cigar this time around. But it was not to be, for the Harvard racquetmen were determined to end what some would call a disappointing season with a satisfying...