Word: zigzags
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...just too big. Then they get excited. "So that's what you are doing here," says Samory, "building a road. Great! Pay us well, and we'll build it for you." Joachine chimes in, "But you've got to build it in a straight line, not that zigzag path you took today." They then launch into a debate about how much they should be paid and whether they should be allowed to bring their women...
...unashamedly wooing Republicans and independents even before the first Democratic primary, Clinton is bettering his chances for ultimate success. For decades now, Democrats have had to run left to win their party's nomination and then right to contest the general election, an ideological zigzag that has alienated many voters. What Clinton seems to understand is that U.S. presidential politics is not two one-act plays but a single play with two acts. "Yeah," says Rich Bond, one of the President's top campaign advisers. "It looks like this guy may actually...
EGYPT. Part democrat, part autocrat, President Hosni Mubarak is steering a zigzag course. He has allowed opposition parties to flower, and tolerates perhaps the most feisty press in the Arab world. At the same time, he has invoked emergency arrest-and-detention laws to crack down on radical fundamentalists. Mubarak's party controls the national assembly; the opposition benches are dominated by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, who had to run under other parties since the Brotherhood is banned...
Stung by criticism that he has become an "accomplice" of the murderous Khmer Rouge guerrillas, Cambodian resistance leader Prince Norodom Sihanouk last week resorted to a familiar tactic. He announced yet another change in his zigzag course to a political settlement...
...Colorado, "the waves cause the gases there to move up and down" -- oscillations that astronomers can measure. To date, they have discovered millions of different oscillations, up- and-down motions with cycles ranging from 2 1/2 to 13 minutes. Some are caused by seismic waves confined to a zigzag path near the surface, others by waves that plunge as far as four-fifths the distance to the solar center before being deflected back...