Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days, both are in killer mode, training as much as six hours a day. "Tilt it more! Arch your back!" Dean prods them during workouts in Oberstdorf. Sometimes the sessions are brutal. "I'm glad my mother isn't watching," Isabelle says. "We step on each other's feet, cut our hands. Paul was hospitalized once with a nose hemorrhage." Isabelle's melodramatic description may be part of the Duchesnays' Olympic psych-up. As front runners, they have to work all the harder to maintain the diehard, embattled anxiety they will be relying on to spin their dreams...
...effort to revive Mary's influence, it was to be expected, at least to some degree, that her popularity would grow. What was far less predictable was the outpouring of new interpretations of the Virgin's message for believers. In his writings, the Pope has given a conservative tilt to the meaning of Mary's life. The Pontiff's 1988 apostolic letter Mulieris Dignitatem (On the Dignity and Vocation of Women), citing positions taken at Vatican II, declared that "the Blessed Virgin came first as an eminent and singular exemplar of both virginity and motherhood." He extolled both states...
...been "good," according to Jewish + leaders who monitor such matters. Bill Clinton has lately made all the right noises, but he could be hit for merely asserting that Israel will "inevitably" have to trade land for peace, and for favoring an "evenhanded" Middle East policy -- "evenhanded" signifying an Arab tilt to some Jews...
...Honda's sporty CRX and Toyota's Celica. Mercedes, which set up shop only last October, plans to have a California prototype by the end of next year. The other Europeans are proceeding more timidly. The sort of California innovations Audi expects in the near term, for instance, are tilt- down steering wheels and dashboard coffee-cup holders...
Making the court unsafe for all kinds of cases is part of the conservative agenda. A sampling of last week's rulings gives a good indication of the court's current rightward tilt...