Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the high court poised to tilt decisively to the right on several inflammatory issues, a nominee publicly committed to overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established the right to abortion, would provoke an outcry from the liberal forces that derailed Robert Bork's nomination in 1987. But if the President picked a Justice less inclined to overturn Roe, right-to- life activists and conservative Republicans already angered by Bush's retraction of his "no new taxes" pledge would be enraged. Facing these polarized options, the President deftly reduced the risk by selecting a Stealth candidate. Federal Appeals...
Proponents argue that Earth Day 1990 will both challenge individuals and mobilize new constituencies such as minorities, the religious community and organized labor. The event's disciplined chairman and mastermind, San Francisco lawyer Denis Hayes, hopes to saturate the public consciousness and create what he calls a "tilt point" in attitudes, refocusing the passions of the cold war on ecological issues. Hayes hopes that Earth Day will help make sound environmental behavior as accepted in daily life as wearing a seat belt. Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts believes Earth Day will help recruit an army of voters to hold...
Equa Chair. This handsome office chair, created by Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick for the manufacturer Herman Miller, comprises two structural innovations: the backbone is an ingeniously cut single piece of springy glass- reinforced polyester resin, and a special knee-tilt mechanism lets the sitter lean back without whipping his feet off the floor...