Word: tilts
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...inklings of dread for a while now. Back in May, a New York Times Magazine article, “Armies of the Right: The Young Hipublicans,” highlighted the growing numbers of campus conservatives, citing polls that show a decided rightward tilt in the political views of college freshmen. According to the article, in 1995, 66 percent of college students believed the rich should be taxed at a higher rate. Only 50 percent believed the same in 2002. Most of the 16 percent that changed their minds ended up in my blocking group...
...some help is on the way. This week, some 10,000 soldiers from more than 20 countries - many of them in "new Europe," that loose amalgam of young, hungry, former Soviet-bloc states planning to join the E.U., and those in the West who are uncomfortable with the Gaullist tilt of the Franco-German axis - will be fully mustered in Iraq under the command of Polish General Andrzej Tyszkiewicz to help the Yanks and Brits shoulder what looks like a long and hazardous occupation. Serving alongside 2,300 Polish soldiers will be 1,600 soldiers from Ukraine, 1,300 from...
...example, Pacific Sun tends to downplay rather than call attention to its house brand. PacSun stores carry the company's private-label clothing, called Tilt, but instead of stitching the name prominently on the outside of clothes, the retailer hides the logos on inside tags. The strategy provides insurance against the inevitable moment when a brand goes from In to "losers only" with customers. "When a teen decides a brand is dead," Weaver says, "they don't kill it slowly. They put it immediately out of its misery." That is also the reason PacSun stocks a wide variety of brands...
...seizure victims from swallowing their tongue. In fact, "swallowing the tongue is an urban legend," says Greg Stockton, a health and safety expert at the Red Cross. Instead, remove hard objects from around the person and cushion the head. Sometimes the tongue will block the airway. In that case, tilt the head back, lift the chin and turn the person on his or her side. And as with all cases of unconsciousness, call...
...team-high 33 runs? Would you go with the power presence who stepped up the most when the Crimson’s best player, junior Trey Hendricks, went down after knee surgery? The guy who hit seven homers on the year, with every one of them seeming to tilt a critical Red Rolfe Division game...