Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speculation cannot be limited to these three. All are known as administrators, and in the pendulum philosophy of many cardinals, Paul's successor should exhibit a pastoral style, not unlike that of Pope John XXIII. Such an approach, they feel, might provide a far more accessible papacy and a welcome father figure for the world's 710 million Roman Catholics...
...been going on among Chinese for centuries. More than a decade after the end of the McCarran Committee investigations, Fairbank is reported to have told a group of young China-language foreign service officers not to be too confident about the political freedom of the '60s because, "Remember, the pendulum could swing the other way. It always does." A few years later, sure enough, Fairbank was again struck by the pendulum's swing when he was criticized by "New Left" China scholars who felt he had been insufficiently critical of U.S. policy toward Peking and insufficiently fast in becoming...
...percentage of the city's budget--.1 per cent is her recommendation--but it is unlikely that White or the city council would support the measure. As for the legislation to get state funding, Garguilo said, "I don't expect to see that bill again." Like a pendulum, the finance commission regularly swings between effectiveness and impotence. Before Fine became chairman in 1972, three of the five employees were over 65 year...
...wild movement," Calhoun said. "A flurry of new programs were launched, mostly on zeal and peanut butter. Now things are beginning to settle down once again. We've come to realize that for 'x' number of kids, we do need secured facilities." "But the pendulum isn't going to whip all the way back to training school days," Calhoun adds quickly...
...pendulum swung back last year in Lebanon. Arafat and the Palestinians misjudged their strength and thereupon entered a losing military and political battle with Syria. They now find themselves dependent on moderate governments in Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile the irrepressible Hussein, who handled his humiliation at Rabat with particular grace, has re-emerged as a force in Arab peace negotiations. Today Hussein sits more securely on his throne, so much so that he has felt strong enough to advocate a Jordanian-Palestinian federation. Arafat is less secure but still a likely choice to head whatever Palestinian state emerges...