Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says craggy-faced George Ariyoshi: "At some point, the pendulum starts swinging back in the other direction." The economic outlook is hazy. New job openings in some fields traditionally favored by A.J.A.s, such as teaching and the civil service, have grown scarce...
...past few years the seven-member Corporation and the 32-member Board of Overseers have changed slightly in composition, the Corporation taking on two professors and the Overseers several women, blacks and non-business people. So what is new this year is that the pendulum is swinging back in the other direction...
...pendulum is once again swinging in the right direction for the Crimson cagers. Last night they traveled to Hanover and emerged with their third straight, and seventh Ivy triumph, an 89-83 victory over Dartmouth...
...LONG-RANGE PLANNING. The U.S. has problems, and one of them is that it is always swinging one way or the other like a pendulum. We never plan anything. Take air-and water-pollution control, for instance. Suddenly there is a great big flap, and everybody gets excited, and all of a sudden some law is passed; it's got to be done within a very short time frame and it costs you a fortune to do it. You can't clean up the country in four years...
...think that everybody is going to have to go through that. I think that the pendulum is swinging. [With Watergate, it] has swung over where everybody wants something disclosed. I think that it will swing back to a central position...