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...reinforce the "natural" political shift toward the right, as it did after World War II and for most of the past 25 years, but it can also accelerate a turn to the left, as it did in the early 1960s. Or the social discombobulations provoked by a given zig, as with the late '60s, can make the zag that follows more extreme; thus the long political period we've just been through...
...loud about what's holding back their political leaders from giving the green light. And the flirtation with various cease-fire proposals earlier in the week by the man in charge of Operation Cast Lead, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, has prompted a revival within the ranks of the nickname "Zig-Zag" - originally applied to Barak in reference to his skittish diplomacy as Prime Minister in 2000, ahead of the failed Camp David summit...
...backhoe's work could be seen along a six-mile (10 km) stretch of the road from Tskhinvali to the Russian border. Gates and fences had been smashed down and piping bent into a crazy zig...
...eyewitness told Israeli media that the driver tried to slam the bulldozer's blade onto a pedestrian, but "missed her by an inch". He added: "At first I thought it was an accident, but then he kept going in a zig-zag down the slope of King David, overturned a car and hit a few cars. The whole thing happened very quickly." The driver, identified as Rassan Abu Tir, 22, was shot and wounded by an armed civilian, but kept on driving until he was killed by shots from a Border Police officer. His bulldozer careened to a halt within...
...nation with consistency. “The shortest path between two points is a straight line. We in Latin America like to go to left for six years, right for six years, then back to the center,” said Fox. He called it a “zig-zag” situation where “it takes a long time to get where you are going.” Fox lamented the fact that Latin America had seen the lowest rates of economic growth of any region during the 20th century. He added that he understands...