Word: tilts
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Likewise in Jordan, King Abdullah II is pushing the slogan "Jordan First." Jordan's standing with the U.S. was badly hurt by the country's tilt toward Saddam in 1991, and Abdullah has signaled he will not repeat that cycle. In Egypt, officials are busy telling reporters that while President Hosni Mubarak opposes a war, he has absolutely no time for Saddam. In a scathing commentary headlined THE MADNESS OF BAGHDAD and written by editor Ibrahim Nafie, the government daily al-Ahram blamed future chaos in Iraq on the "megalomania of some in Baghdad...
...some years that I have been here, I have never experienced a better atmosphere for playing Harvard tennis as I did for that match,” Chiou said of the tilt against Minnesota. “I’ve never had so much fun losing before...
...from the Iranians. He flirts with peace, then flees. The ideological argument has the subtlety of a punch in the nose: it is based in the Sharon-Likud conceit that Arabs "only understand" strength. This has a certain resonance with tough guys like Rumsfeld and Cheney. America's Likudnik tilt has empowered the Sharon government to preside over a dramatic increase in illegal - that is, unapproved - West Bank settlements: 70 new outposts in Palestinian areas, many of them tended by religious extremists. Palestinians regard these settlements about the same way as Israelis do suicide bombers. As for the political argument...
...short, everything has come full circle—but with a twist. Tonight’s tilt with the Tigers comes on the road rather than at home. It comes near the start of the league season rather than at the end. And a win would bring endless possibility, not just the consolation prize it was for Hill...
...aren't fully taxable preferreds in line for tax relief? They have so many bondlike traits that tax authorities treat the payouts not as dividends but as interest payments (where no tax changes are in store). So tax relief--if it ever comes--could tilt the table toward traditional preferred. As for convertible preferred, that should be thought of as common stock, which isn't the best way to generate an income stream...