Word: pendulums
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...pendulum swung the other way again in the 1920s, when William Foxwell Albright appeared on the scene. A professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins and the son of a Methodist missionary, he took a much more scientific approach than most of his predecessors. Rather than assume that the Bible was either entirely accurate or completely fictional, he attempted to confirm Old Testament stories with independent archaeological evidence. And under his considerable influence, biblical archaeology finally became a disciplined and scientific enterprise...
...focusing on more narrow questions that tap into the nation's deep ambivalence about abortion. "We are not trying to come in and suddenly make radical changes," said freshman Republican Enid Greene Waldholtz of Utah. "We're trying to address the legitimate concerns of people who think the pendulum has swung too far." Says Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, whose Contract with the American Family is the blueprint for much of the legislation: "We don't want to overplay our hand with a pro-life Congress the way the pro-abortion people overplayed their hand...
...could make it much more difficult for blacks in southern states to be elected to Congress, saysTIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "In Alabama and Louisiana, two states with large black minorities, you could once again see an all-white congressional delegation. In the civil rights movement," says Cohen, "the pendulum has always swung only one way, toward greater minority voting rights. Now, with this decision, the pendulum is sharply swinging back." Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy said that race could not be a determining factor in deciding how to draw the boundaries of a district unless states could...
This is really about nothing more than a pendulum. For the past 40 years, we've sent more money and power and control to Washington, and they've done some great things, like civil rights, fixing the gaps in education, the Medicare program. But now the pendulum has swung so far in the direction of Washington that it's out of balance, and we're bringing it back...
Political support for intelligence work swings like a pendulum. This quickly changing congressional environment, while understandable in its own terms, is not helpful to a law-enforcement agency. The behavior of rank-and-file government workers cannot be fine-tuned like a clock or made precisely sensitive to changing legislative moods. The members of any organization take their cues from the general posture of their superiors and clients. When the posture is threatening, the reaction is predictable: Pull back...