Word: tilts
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...quietest spots in the U.S.S.R.'s diplomatic service. But when Afghanistan's nonalignment policy began to slip, the Soviet leadership panicked. Three members of the Kremlin inner circle--Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, KGB chief Yuri Andropov and Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov--feared that the Afghans would tilt toward the U.S. unless stern "measures" were taken. Late on the night of Dec. 12, ailing Communist Party chairman Leonid Brezhnev called the three to a secret meeting to hear their proposal. To keep the U.S. from installing a friendly regime, they said, Moscow must send in troops. The military operation, Brezhnev...
What's more, Bush may have further diluted his credibility with the Palestinians, who already distrust his Administration's tilt toward Israel. On a subject in which every presidential word is exhaustively scrutinized, Bush appeared to signal a step further toward Israel's position when he said Palestinians must adopt democratic reforms and stop the violence before Israel had to quit expanding its settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Before, Bush said settlement activity should halt as a first step toward progress...
...misshapen plank of wood and everybody in the room goes “Ooooooh.” Instead of being rowdy, the audience is mostly reverent. Mild shouts of “What a bowl!” greet the instant replay. When something goes terribly awry, they tilt back their heads and make a disapproving yet dignified “tsk” sound, or place their heads in their hands while groaning or (when things get really rough) raise their arms at an oblique angle and flail their forefingers in frustration...
This would not be a problem, if the facilities required to participate in fringe sports were just as available as a pair of basketball hoops. Usually, however, the tilt toward fringe sports favors the wealthy few who send their children to prep schools, undermining one of the real benefits of athletic recruiting. After all, how many students from public high schools in Roxbury or from the corn fields of Iowa have the opportunity to row crew, much less fence, sail or play squash...
...chief inspector has designed his missile demand as a crucial test of Iraqi compliance with UN disarmament demands, which comes in a more crucial week for the Bush administration's efforts to win UN authorization for war. Buoyed by the strongly antiwar tilt of public opinion in Europe and beyond, France, Germany and Russia continue to resist moves to ditch the inspection process and authorize an invasion. But for domestic political reasons, even such staunch Bush allies as Britain's Tony Blair and Italy's Silvio Berlusconi have pressed Washington to seek a second UN resolution before going...