Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson's foreign policies are radically non-interventionist, with a pro-Third World tilt. Like Hart and Mondale, he favors a freeze on building and deploying nuclear weapons. He would cut American military forces in Europe and Japan in half over five years, arguing that allies should pay for more of their own defense, which he says now costs the U.S. $150 billion a year. Critics note correctly that his defense planks would tempt Soviet adventurism, but Jackson dismisses such talk as alarmist. To ease cold war tensions and revive arms-control talks, he would "aggressively negotiate" with...
...Hewlett-Packard may finally be finding its touch with personal computers. Next month it will introduce a battery-operated portable computer, code-named Nomad, that will weigh 8.5 Ibs. and sell for $3,000. Industry insiders are excited about the machine, which has a tilt-up flat screen and built-in software including the industry's current hit, Lotus 1-2-3, a business planning program that also produces graphs. The computer has twice the memory of Apple's hot-selling Macintosh, and is designed to connect to the IBM Personal Computer as well as to Hewlett-Packard...
...Globe. The prose is often institutional or, in features, cloyingly cute. Admits Rosenthal: "The paper has not much humor." The staffs awareness of its power and responsibility has resulted in a high level of accuracy, although the editorial stance, the Op-Ed page selections and occasionally the news judgments tilt to the left...
Always running at full tilt, the Candidates show the strain...
Nevertheless, the United States should not "tilt" toward Iraq, as we recently did toward Jordan in our offer of weapons to King Hussein. Iraq is not even one of the so-called moderate Arab states. The minority-supported regime in Iraq practices some of the most brutal and oppressive internal policies of any country in the world--a claim supported by their use of mustard gas, which was outlawed after World War I in a treaty ratified by Iraq...