Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's support is made up of three legs: older voters, women and African Americans. Though Dole is one of their own generation, seniors, the people most concerned about Medicare, tilt strongly to Clinton. So do women, who favor him over Dole, 53% to 37%. Dole wins the men by a smaller margin, 48% to 43%. With Powell gone, African Americans flip overwhelmingly back to Clinton...
Caldwell scissors across the stage in lean and elegant black. Although she does not sing a note, she does a brilliant job of suggesting--with the turn of a hand, the tilt of her head--the minor adjustments of someone attending to an inner genius; you don't doubt that if she could only transfer what's inside her to her pupils, they would sing like angels. And when Callas' voice is piped in--a true angel, soaring out of the loudspeakers--Caldwell, her conduit, suddenly embodies the paradox at the heart of every magnificent diva: someone who might...
Veterans' advocates and the VA itself agree that relief from congressionally mandated rules that tilt the system toward expensive in-patient care could squeeze far more bang from the buck. (Under the present system, for example, many veterans cannot receive treatment for hypertension as outpatients. They have to wait to be admitted as in-patients for a heart attack or stroke.) But while the House has passed eligibility reform, the Senate...
...such established conservative journals as the National Review and the American Spectator, is there room for one more? Livelier than the Review, less bratty than the Spectator, the Standard is modeled most obviously on the New Republic, but with a more narrow focus on politics. And a more consistent tilt to the right, though with a few surprises. Among several admiring pieces about Newt Gingrich is one by Charles Krauthammer that spurns the House Speaker's chipper vision of a techno-Utopia. Technology makes many problems worse, Krauthammer warns, leaving politics to clean up the mess; besides, conservatives shouldn...
...past, Lake Superior, which represents one-tenth of the world's supply of freshwater, was considered "inviolable," but with environmental groups in retreat and a Republican Congress favoring "wise use" of natural resources, the Excelsior project is moving full tilt toward opening...