Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Berry clan is affectionately bizarre, yet their various fates embody the powerfully personalized truths that tilt the world according to Irving. The cast of characters...
Reagan's approach has a certain show-business tilt. He set out to engender new pride in the military. He ordered more prominent display of the Stars and Stripes. He insisted that the ceremony for Master Sergeant Roy P. Benavidez, who was belatedly awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Viet Nam, be scheduled at the Pentagon, and he made the award himself. Reagan urged that rules on military uniforms be relaxed so that more servicemen would be encouraged to wear them off duty as well...
...they need in port for maintenance and the Navy's preference for using them in tandem, even a 15-carrier fleet could keep only five or six task forces at sea at the same time. Also, military reformers argue that the sinking of a single Nimitz-class carrier could tilt the naval balance to the U.S.S.R. in an entire theater of war. They advocate numerous smaller, lighter carriers that could do their power-projecting into many more places more quickly. The Navy, says Senator Hart, has regarded such pleas "with an attitude bordering on contempt." It has even refused, Hart...
Ever since Ronald Reagan took office last January, relations between the U.S. and China have been as rocky as a Himalayan footpath. The Chinese are still smarting from his pro-Taiwan statements made during the presidential campaign, and suspect that he will tilt U.S. policy toward Taipei. Stopping in Hong Kong last week, on his way to three days of talks with Chinese leaders in Peking, Secretary of State Alexander Haig admitted that the purpose of his trip was "to clear the air with respect to President Reagan's policies in this region...
...with them directly. His best tunes - many of them, like Mystery Kids, to be found on his newest album, Escape Artist -have the cool anger and the anxious tenderness of a street blood. A Jeffreys record is like a fast cruise across the radio band. Reggae, jazz and full-tilt rock all blend with casual finesse. This is big-city soul music born of tough beginnings and hard realities. Soul music for sole survivors...