Word: tilts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most notable thing about this election will be the man who can't run in it--former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Bibi" has been preparing for a tilt at Barak since he was cleared of corruption charges in the fall. If the Knesset had been able to call general elections, as it was in the process of doing, Netanyahu could have challenged Likud leader Ariel Sharon for the right-wing spot to oppose Barak...
Dick Cheney's first target in a second Bush administration may well be to finish a job he never completed as defense secretary in the first Bush administration: Kill the Marines' controversial MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft program. He got a tragic boost in that quest last night when one of the hybrid planes crashed in the North Carolina woods, killing all four Marines on board. The Pentagon is still trying to perfect - and buy - the Osprey a decade after Cheney vainly tried to scrap it during his tenure as defense secretary. The corps, backed by powerful allies...
...Crimson, junior Emily Katz won one tilt, and freshman Liz Blase prevailed in a 5-3 bout against highly-touted Columbia fencer Katie Cavan...
...expect any Senators to change their party stripes for a committee chairmanship from the enemy. Democrats have already quietly sniffed for defectors but have found no prospects. The only opportunity for a tilt in their direction would be if the Senate's two oldest Republicans, who are in poor health--South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, 97, and North Carolina's Jesse Helms, 79--suddenly left and the Democratic Governors of their states picked replacements...
...tanned, ponytailed and fast talking, with a background in experimental music and toy design. His group has spent the past couple of years dreaming up utterly outlandish text-display inventions like Speeder Reader. There's the Tilty Table, a vast and thin computer screen on shock absorbers that you tilt in any direction to scroll through a document that would in real life be 30 ft. across; Listen Reader, which uses tiny embedded computer chips to produce different ambient sounds on each page of a children's book; and the Reading-Eye Dog, a robotic pet that uses a text...