Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...operates at full tilt all the time," says Jack P. Reardon Jr. '60, executive director of the Harvard Alumni Association, who travels with Rudenstine on campaignrelated business. "You worry about that physically...
...familiar debate over the ideological tilt of PBS's documentaries misses the real problem with such programming: just as conservatives loathe PBS shows that challenge their comfortable world view, the liberals responsible for PBS documentaries aren't much interested in discovering truths that might jostle their notions of truth and injustice. Neither side really wants let-the-chips- fall-where-they-may TV. Edge, an irreverent PBS magazine show, was canceled last year after airing just eight programs, and PBS declined a $5 million grant to create unconventional 1992 election-year coverage. "Anything apart from the norm...
...time for the most powerless in society to join this fight. Those who obey the law must tilt the law to their advantage, minimizing the excessive power of criminals and police officers...
...appears that the regularity of Earth's seasons is a lucky accident, a side effect of the moon. New computer simulations reported in Science and ; Nature have shown that the tilt of a planet like Mars, which has no large moon, will wobble dramatically over periods of a few million years. The gravitational influence of Earth's moon, by contrast, stabilizes our planet. So if life never arose on the Red Planet, one reason may be lack of a suitable satellite...
...reason for staging the bombing -- or for doing it and hoping the Croats would be blamed. The announcement this week that the U.S. would soon start sending relief flights over Bosnia made it just as plausible that the blast might be a response by Serbs to a perceived tilt against their side. Six months ago, Serbian nationalists threatened to bomb Western's Europe's nuclear facilities if its governments intervened militarily in the former Yugoslavia...