Word: pendulum
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...change now occurring is emphatically not a simple pendulum swing back from conservatism to New Deal liberalism. The change is more complex, more interesting. By the end of the '70s, Americans understood that from the '30s on, the welfare state had grown almost unrestrained. The left-leaning populism that bashed Big Business gave way to a right-leaning populism, one that produced tax revolts like California's Proposition...
...find quotes by [Harvard President] Bok on almost every side of every issues. That could mean he's a Renaissance man or a pendulum. How often are you blessed with his presence?" Nader asked...
Psychologist David Lykken, one of the Minnesota researchers, thinks the study will shove the pendulum further away from the "radical environmentalism" of those who believe the characters of children are more or less created by their parents and environment. Lykken says Test Pilot Chuck Yeager is daring because he was "genetically endowed with a low scale of fearlessness," a trait that might have been redirected or tamped down but not eradicated. Says Psychologist Nancy Segal, a member of the project: "Parents can work to make a child less fearful, but they can't make that child brave...
...pitching pendulum swung to New York last night as Bob Ojeda matched finesse against the power of Nolan Ryan, pitching the Mets to a 5-1 victory over Houston for a split of the first two games of the National League playoffs...
...DEMOCRATS' SOLUTIONS to their deeper problems seem to consist of denial and rhetoric. They wait for the pendulum while talking about the need to: reshape, reassess assumptions, start to rebuild, shed old images, seize opportunities and, not least...