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...sweep the Pacific's warm equatorial waters westward. As a result, some of the water flows south toward the South American coast, rising over and blocking the cold Humboldt waters from the Antarctic. This is how El Niño is born. But the oscillation also appears to tweak the Northern Hemisphere's weather as well. This year the increased west-to-east jet stream, which usually diminishes during winter, has raised sea levels 8 in. above normal and brought huge amounts of precipitation to California. While these byproducts are plain enough, the oscillation's original cause...
...their lives." The lesson for Ronald Reagan, says one of his political strategists, is that the election pressures should nudge him toward a greater pragmatism but no abandonment of his basic course. What the voters gave the President, in this adviser's view, was "a good, strong tweak in the nose...
Hank Ross had another idea that everyone hoped would give the game a last, irresistible quirk of personality. This is known in the business as "the tweak. He proposed having Bally's enormously popular Pac Man, a dot-gobbling yellow disc, help the player by eating balloons on the clown's head. And so it came to pass, and a sneak preview was held at a local arcade. The results, after all of this R. & D., were disastrous. The game, renamed Kick, took too long to play, and thus took in too few quarters. To remedy this, the rate...
...gentle tweak of a steel wheel not much bigger than a silver dollar points Cavalier's snout in a fresh direction with the ease of a Cadillac swinging into a country-club driveway. Wooden helms are fast becoming museum pieces, like so many vestiges of wind-sailing days. Crews no longer wash then-clothes in deck buckets, they toss them in washers and dryers. Gone are the iceboxes and worries about the food spoiling...
...festivities in Bucharest last week, which kicked off a two-week state visit by the Chinese leader to Rumania, Yugoslavia and Iran, not only constituted a brazen Chinese tweak at the Russian bear but heralded the beginning of an extraordinary new era of personalized Chinese diplomacy following more than a decade of isolationism, if not hostile xenophobia. Looking fit in an elegantly tailored tunic, Hua, 57, obviously enjoyed every minute of the affair. As well he might. Aside from a brief visit to North Korea last spring, this was his first trip to a foreign country and -for a Chinese...