Word: tilts
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Born in frustration after the drubbing of Walter Mondale in 1984 -- and modeled on the conservative Republicans' successful takeover of the G.O.P. -- the D.L.C. seeks to rescue the Democratic Party from its left-leaning tilt. As put by one of its founders, Senator Sam Nunn, "We Democrats can't continue to blame bad candidates, bad tactics and bad luck." The goal, as stated by Clinton, who chaired the council for a year and a half until he resigned an hour before his campaign began last August, is to "develop a new middle ground of thinking on which someone...
...later, that effort culminated in a spectacular success: the casting of one of the world's largest telescope mirrors, a single 6.5-m (21-ft.) circle of glass that sometime in 1994 will be hauled by flatbed truck to the top of Arizona's Mount Hopkins, where it will tilt skyward like a giant Cyclopean...
...Senate bill to provide a three-year authorization of $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels money to PBS and its member stations, was delayed early this month after conservative Senators railed against the alleged leftward tilt of the shows. Republican John McCain of Arizona blasted Maria's Story, the profile of a peasant woman who joined the left-wing insurgency in El Salvador, which aired last summer. Minority leader Robert Dole criticized PBS election commentators Bill Moyers and former Washington Post editor William Grieder -- "two excellent journalists who also / happen to be two excellent liberal Democrats...
...blue-gray ergonomic chair, with a tilt-swivel mechanism and pneumatic adjustment, vinyl arms and a star pedestal base, retails for $500. It's a fine chair. But it's just a chair, of course -- except when it sits behind the most famous Formica desk in America, the first desk in the history of the Republic to stand for something other than homework and bureaucracy. When that chair sits behind the Desk That Johnny Built, that chair, of course, is a throne...
...producers of these shows deny any tilt toward tabloid subjects. "These are not sensational stories; these are stories in the headlines," says Victor Neufeld, executive producer of 20/20. Heyward admits there are some topics that the prime-time shows have a hard time doing. "But that's one reason the networks still need documentary units," he says. "There are some subjects that need to be done, damn the ratings, full speed ahead...