Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simple," Watt says of his really very complex duties as manager of the Government's 1.5 billion acres of land and water. "America must have abundant energy if we are to secure our freedom and liberty and create jobs." For Watt, that means a rather sudden, gear-grinding tilt toward private exploitation of Government-owned natural resources, toward drilling and mining and away from a supposedly too scrupulous preservation of nature...
...forbade such shipments because India did not sign the 1968 nuclear non-proliferation treaty. The Reagan Administration agreed last week to let India buy the necessary fuel from France as long as negotiated safeguards and inspections are honored. In addition, Gandhi has been displeased by Washington's publicized tilt toward India's hostile neighbor Pakistan. The U.S. has offered arms and fighter jets to Pakistan in the wake of the Soviet Union's Afghanistan invasion...
...shouldn't tilt toward Iraq so much that we throw Iran into the arms of the Soviets, but we can tilt a little bit, enough to encourage the Saudis and some of the others to conclude that we are still their friends and would come to their rescue if worst comes to worst...
...neighborhood of Kenner, a middle-class suburb of one-story brick houses. "I saw the belly of it," she said about the 727. "It was spitting and popping like it couldn't get the motor running." Watching in horror, other residents saw the 727's left wing tilt toward the ground. They thought the pilot was trying to bank to the north so he could avoid their homes and come down in Lake Pontchartrain, a short distance away...
PERHAPS it was the provocative tilt of her head, or the perfect pouting lips. Her lovely oval eyes were large and not quite innocent. Smooth skin, smooth, elegant neck, all framed by soft auburn hair. Something--no, actually everything--about Catherine Oxenberg made a guy gulp for air or punch his roommate in frustration...