Word: pendulum
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...offering Democrats a chance to return to the clarity and authenticity needed to regain power. From his opposition to the war in Iraq to his support for ending the exclusion of committed same-sex couples from marriage, he is emerging as the one to watch as the political pendulum swings...
Hayes uses such exercises to make the point that our thoughts can have unexpected consequences. Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life illustrates that unreliability by quoting a 1998 Psychological Science study in which 84 subjects were asked to hold a pendulum steady. Some were told not only to hold it steady but also not to move the pendulum sideways. But the latter group tended to move the pendulum sideways more often than the group told merely to keep it steady. Why? "Because thinking about not having it move [sideways] activates the very muscles that move it that...
...That isn?t bad. Meanwhile, headhunters report soaring demand for accountants, engineers, financial planners, physical therapists, computer support specialists, advertising executives, real estate professionals and sales and marketing managers-especially, for that last group, those with international experience. ?The pendulum has swung back in favor of workers,? says Richard Bayer, chief operating officer of the Five O?Clock Club, an outplacement service based in New York. His typical client today lands a job offer in under 10 weeks, versus more than 13 weeks the past few years...
...Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (Pendulum). Combining upscale jazz and proletarian hip hop, Digable Planets has brought two sides of the black experience together, uniting buppies and b-boys from Howard University to Howard Beach...
...rover that Hayabusa will dispatch to roam the asteroid for several days. The robot, named Minerva, will use its miniature cameras and thermometers to send data back to the mothership. Since wheels are useless on such low-gravity surfaces, the coffee-can-sized machine will maneuver using an internal pendulum?a swinging weight that will let the bot hop about the surface...