Word: pendulum
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...October, she had to step in when Nelligan had the flu. "For three performances I rode the crest of a tremendous wave," says Danson, "but then I was back in the Green Room doing crossword puzzles. It takes a lot of adjustment to handle those huge swings of the pendulum...
...continuing argument over the death penalty does not alter the fact that at this moment Americans are predisposed to "fry" felons. A decade ago we were not. The pendulum of revenge will continue to swing...
...budget cuts may swing the boom-bust pendulum a little bit one way or the other, but the fact remains that disinvestment began to gather momentum long before Reagan ever reared his Brylcreemed head. Bluestone and Harrison's book demands that readers of all political stripes face the fact that investment, and how to increase it--not this budget plan or that--is the economic issue for the '80s. Deindustrialization is a problem that has been brewing for a long time, and it will require a fundamental and far-reaching solution...
...must be controlled better than they were during the lameduck session. In addition, Reagan, who up to now has had great success in persuading Congress to do his bidding, must show that he also has the flexibility to work with the institution when it asserts more independence. Otherwise, the pendulum will swing from a Congress that once had blind faith in Reagan's policies to one that is blindly determined to stop them. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Neil MacNeil and Evan Thomas/Washington
...swing of the pendulum back toward the Democrats reverses a trend that began in earnest in 1978, when voters sent a message that they wanted lower taxes and less government. Republicans took over three additional Senate seats and twelve more House seats that year, riding a wave of discontent symbolized by the Proposition 13 tax revolt in California. The G.O.P. hoped that the 1980 Reagan victory, which brought them twelve more Senators and 33 Congressmen, signified a new conservative electoral coalition made up of traditional Republicans, blue-collar workers and those concerned with social issues such as abortion and school...