Word: pivoting
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...official. The French have done so not because the Americans want it, but to keep up with the British. While it's true that the alliance no longer needs to fight the wars of old, it may not yet be ready to address the newest dangers. "NATO needs to pivot from an inward focus to an outward one, because the greatest threats we face are no longer from within Europe, but from the region stretching from North Africa to Central Asia," says Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to NATO. "The big threat is the nexus of terrorism and weapons...
...they fly. Some Florida school districts have lifted the ban on cell phones, under pressure from parents who want to be able to reach their kids at any time. We have banned coolers from stadiums. Look around any city when a plane flies low, and you can see people pivot to the landmarks. The Empire State, the Golden Gate--is it still there...
...doing just that, however, I quickly realized the extent to which those British concerns were no different than the ones I thought I had left behind. Europe really does pivot around America, and I saw just how tense and problematic that role makes our relationships with other countries. Americans are dangerously misunderstood in Europe, to be sure, and far more ominously, we Americans understand very little about ourselves...
...eased my hold on Stith’s waist, unclenched my teeth and even permitted my head to pivot 30 or 40 degrees to either side to see what the world looks like from atop a speeding motorcycle. Apparently, the world looks like a splatter painting rushing by at 80 mph from atop a speeding motorcycle—I would have to content myself with the whirl of the engine and the rush of the wind...
...Blair is determined to keep up with the leader of the free world - and convinced he can pull it off. Call it the Great Pivot. Blair is about to start a major p.r. campaign. He aims to turn his public - and, he hopes, skeptics in Europe and the Middle East too - from focusing on the defeat of al-Qaeda to an entirely different threat not directly linked to Sept. 11: Saddam's programs to build chemical, biological and especially nuclear weapons...