Word: levering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than 270,000 votes-or 2.2% of the total. Over the following decade the party was strong enough to elect several Congressmen, a few Governors and lots of local officials. In last year's election, a paltry 15,893 voters-.02% of the total-pulled the Prohibitionist lever. Moreover, the party, which was formed in 1869 and is the nation's third oldest, has not elected anybody to anything since the days when people drank their whisky out of teacups. What to do? Last week the party did what many another stumbling enterprise has done: changed...
...longer legs relative to total body length and that lower legs were proportionately longer, while thighs were shorter but more muscular than those of whites. "In jumping, the longer leg is evidently an advantage," Dr. Metheny wrote, "since [he] could raise his leg higher. Applying the principle of the lever, the longer lower leg can develop greater velocity at the end and serves as a longer lever with which to push off the ground, thus increasing the distance over which the force can be applied." The same general rules, Metheny found, applied to blacks' arms: on the average, blacks...
...particular actions, Carter has: 1) presented the most comprehensive strategic arms limitation proposals the U.S. has ever offered the Soviet Union, 2) put the U.S. more forcefully on record than ever before as a champion of human rights around the world, and used foreign aid as a lever to pry loose such rights, 3) ignored diplomatic niceties in suggesting concessions that various factions must make in seeking peace in the Middle East, 4) taken on the politically dangerous task of asking the nation to accept an energy-conservation plan that will require sacrifices by millions...
determined effrontery. On a larger scale, would-be reformers in the Soviet Union and East Europe have used the Communist governments' ratification of Helsinki as a lever to press for liberalization on many fronts, such as censorship and immigration-with scant success. The Kremlin and the other East bloc regimes have no intention of permitting the free flow of ideas and people that Helsinki calls...
...disastrous for student-initiated efforts to bring a complete set of CRR reforms before the Faculty Council. The student caucus of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life is now working on such proposals, and has requested the freshmen's cooperation in retaining the boycott as a bargaining lever with the Faculty...