Word: pendulum
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...White House staff began to weigh the advantages of having its own man at the Federal Reserve against the domestic and international uncertainty that could be caused by switching, the pendulum swung toward Volcker. Secretary Regan did an about-face and last week praised the Federal Reserve chairman publicly, saying, "I think he's done a very good job over a period of years. There were some hits and misses, but overall I think he's done well." Even Preston Martin conceded at week's end that Volcker's reappointment was "highly likely...
...sudden surge in medical officials' salaries, says director of Personnel Daniel D. Cantor, is reflective of the market. These things swing back and forth like a pendulum "If Med School administrators earned any less. Cantor says, "they'd be lower than most of the professionals reporting to them and would be tempted to leave Harvard for private practice...
Political Concerns. In a prepared paper, former French Foreign Minister Jean François-Poncet submitted that although its long-range objectives remain the same, Soviet foreign policy has shifted emphasis in recent years. "Since the invasion of Afghanistan," he explained, "the pendulum of confrontation has swung back to Europe...
...contraption constructed on the pendulum principle won the most creative category...
...Robert Longo, David Salle and Gérard Garouste. Taken together, they were fairly instructive. Here are three rising, though by no means certified, reputations; yet their success seems tinged with panic. They are all young (Longo is 30, Salle 31, and Garouste 37) and, of course, figurative - the pendulum of taste having now swung so far that it is practically impossible to have a rising reputation if you are a new abstract painter. Each, in his way, is a perfect subject of the "postmodernist" image machine, that powerful contraption which, modeled on corporate p.r. lines, has transformed the very...