Word: tilts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move to the left in Sunday's poll was significant. While the parties of the extreme right failed to make it into parliament, the old East German communists -- reconstructed as the Party of Democratic Socialism -- made a surprisingly strong comeback, gaining a total of 35 seats. That leftward tilt gives Schroeder a firm mandate to fulfill his promise to reverse Kohl's welfare cuts. But when it comes to pushing through tax and labor reforms, Green doesn't necessarily signal...
...faces of SOHO's solar panels tilt more and more toward the sun, controllers are alternately charging the batteries and using them to warm SOHO's slushy on-board hydrazine fuel, which nearly froze during the craft's dormancy. The hydrazine, when fully thawed, will be used to fire thrusters in a series of brief burns. That procedure should halt SOHO's spin, stabilize the observatory and face its solar panels directly toward...
...index portion can run as high as 80% of the fund. Manager picks make up the rest of the portfolio. The funds hold virtually no cash. This unusual approach ensures that the funds will track the market when fund managers see few bargains, but gives them room to tilt hard toward favorite stocks--and outrun the market--when greater values emerge. Of course, it's a matter of how well they pick stocks. That's why 80 years of success managing pensions is so comforting...
Slaves to "Baywatch" and KFC all over the planet have a new savior: Canada has declared war on U.S. pop culture. And this is no solo quixotic tilt against the Golden Arches -- Ottawa got the culture ministers of Britain, Brazil, Croatia, Iceland, Mexico and Senegal, among others, on board for a conference on strategies to counter the global dominance of Americana. Needless to say, Washington was not invited, although the official explanation is that the U.S. has no culture minister. But there may be a commercial motive behind Canada's noble quest: "It's driven as much by the entertainment...
...shots (some disconcertingly so: young Richard Serra looks like a dockland thug; his wife, artist Nancy Graves, like a snaggle-toothed nut). And it's interesting that Close's heads, then and later, work best when they are either strictly frontal or in profile; any turn or tilt of the head, suggesting that the sitter has noticed you, weakens the image...