Word: pendulums
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...Republic, even though Article I of the Constitution theoretically gives Congress primary power over the federal purse. The first Congresses appropriated lump sums that Presidents George Washington and John Adams and their Cabinets could spend as they wished. Later legislatures captured effective control of federal finances, but the pendulum swung back to the White House under a succession of strong-willed modern Presidents, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Nixon Administration haughtily proclaimed that congressional appropriations gave it mere "options" as to how much to spend for what. Provoked by such arrogance, Congress passed the Budget Act of 1974, which...
...society that has become terrified of its young. When is a juvenile no longer a juvenile? To a growing number of lawyers, politicians and citizens, the answer is that youthful offenders who commit "grownup" crimes should no longer be treated as children. Says Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller: "The pendulum is swinging in favor of making juveniles accountable as adults, for adult crimes, at an earlier age." Sometimes a single crime is enough to change the rules. In Vermont last spring, two boys, ages 15 and 16, allegedly raped, stabbed and beat two twelve-year-old girls, killing...
...economy; we should avoid full-scale invasions of other nations, especially if we do so in support of corrupt dictators. And by realism blended with compassion, he means just what he implies--in all things moderation. "What we need is less rhetoric and more common sense. Fewer pendulum swings and more steady courses. Less antipathy between the public and private sectors and more cooperation," he writes, and since Tsongas is a Massachusetts Democrat you know who his comments are aimed at. He is out to convince Liberal America that it should abandon confrontation for conciliation, that it should give more...
Throughout the history of U.S. education, as Lawrence Cremin, president of Columbia University's Teachers College, points out in a 100-year survey published last year, the pendulum has swung repeatedly between academic and religious values in U.S. schools. If, as ex-Principal Barton suggests, fundamentalist schools lean too far toward indoctrination and authoritarianism, public school educators are increasingly willing to concede they have been neglecting traditional values of character and citizenship in the classroom...
Maxwell summed up: "It was like a pendulum. We thrashed them a couple of times, but they came back each time. We just played hard and things finally kept falling our way." As any Bostonian of a certain age can attest, that has always been the Celtic way. -B.J. Phillips Reported by Jamie Murphy/Houston