Word: pendulums
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...America's divorce-prone culture. "Adults are searching for models that are acceptable, feel good and also recognize divorce," says Shirley Thomas, author of Parents Are Forever. "Too many lost their fathers when their parents divorced. They saw abandonment by fathers, or fathers cut off by angry mothers. The pendulum is swinging the other...
...course, all this caution has given rise to concern that, after the hype of the Internet's infancy in Europe, the pendulum has swung too far the other way. "Venture capital should be a risk-long business," says Nick Greenspan, a partner at Bain & Company and co-founder of bainlab. "Instead, it's become extremely risk-averse." Jerome Mol, founder and ceo of GorillaPark, says investors are judging European companies by American standards even though the U.S. market is larger and more advanced...
...performers nonchalantly step from the line to exhibit their special talents. Each soloist's voice projects like several musical instruments playing at once. Verse after verse propels the audience on a voyage through spiritual lament and human urges, raw humor and subtle jabs, inheritance squabbles and political rivalry. The pendulum of elation and sorrow swings throughout...
...sixties, we had a big disestablishmentary movement, and that generation fought against all the norms of society. But they threw the baby out with the bathwater," Smith said. "Now the pendulum is swinging back as people realize it's nice to say please and thank...
...hours, nervous anticipation filled the air as the match scores swung back and forth like a pendulum. The jubilation of an individual win was tempered by the realization that every match counted--in what is usually an individualistic sport, each player felt that the team was all that mattered on this...