Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House majority leader Richard Gephardt from 1989 to '91, he also understands the Hill. "He knows the Speaker," says a colleague. "He knows the Leader. When the time comes to pass legislation, he knows what it will take to get it done." Despite a well-documented left-of- center tilt (during his House years he could be spied reading Salvadoran dissident novels on the subway), Stephanopoulos is untainted in the ideological wars that sometimes split the Administration. "He has an agenda, but with Clinton, he's reached the top and is going to insure that he serves his master," says...
...this sainted team? What men can tilt the balance beam? Like the Broncos of Santa Clara, Who beat strong `Zona, to end their era, And even thoughst they lost to Temple, They made a mark, more than a pimple...
This, after all, is the arena of human evolution, where no theory dies without a fight and no bit of new evidence is ever interpreted the same way by opposing camps. The next big discovery could tilt the scales toward the multiregional hypothesis, or confirm the out-of-Africa theory, or possibly lend weight to a third idea, discounted by most -- but not all -- scientists: that H. erectus emerged somewhere outside Africa and returned to colonize the continent that spawned its ancestors...
However much their leaders may defend the Cairo agreement, it has generated antipathy among Palestinians in the territories, who think its terms tilt heavily in Israel's favor. "We got almost everything we wanted," says Uri Dromi, head of Israel's government press office. "Why should I apologize for our success?" That is just what troubles Dr. Eyad Sarraj, who runs a mental- health clinic in Gaza. "Under this agreement, we will have an occupation in everything but name," he says. "Instead of being next door to me, the Israeli army will be a few meters farther away. Gaza will...
...course, "1970s: The Sequel" is intertwined with the general leftward tilt in American politics...