Word: seesawing
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...trade figure was good seemed determined to get in at the opening bell. The Dow Jones industrial average skyrocketed, beginning trade 55 points above Thursday's close of 1916. But the surge ended almost as soon as it had begun, and the market settled into a day of seesaw trading as some investors decided to cash in their profits. The Dow finished at 1956.07, up 39.96 for the day and 44.76 for the week...
...romantic notion that insanity could be a sane reaction to an insane world, while Sociologist Erving Goffman suggested that institutions, by their very nature, stifled individual development. Courts began to protect the rights of the mentally ill against the encroachments of the state. But in the 1980s, the continual seesaw in America between individual freedom and society's responsibility is tipping again...
...incident was fresh evidence that China's seesaw struggle between doctrinaire Communist hard-liners and pragmatic reformists had taken yet another swing. In recent months, the reformists had been gaining greater control over the economy. Now, however, the ideologues have apparently persuaded Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping that the party cannot afford to shelter those who snipe at its authority. Though Wu was the only intellectual whose departure has been confirmed, as many as four other liberal theoreticians and journalists have reportedly been asked to quit the party...
After graduating from Amherst and Yale Drama School he was asked to play a Mid-Western lawyer vulnerable to big city temptations, in "Seesaw," which ran on Broadway in 1973. Since then, his major stage accomplishments include a Theater World Award for his portrayal of Thomas Jefferson in "1776" and a Tony Award for his work in "Child's Play...
Typical of the seesaw battle has been the fight for Barikot, a garrison just across the border from the Pakistani town of Arandu. Barikot is a major base of Soviet operations to block rebel supplies from abroad. Since the mujahedin first attacked the northeastern frontier outpost six years ago, the Soviets have broken the siege twice, only to see the rebels re-establish it. Robert Schultheis, an American free-lance writer, recently made his third trip into Afghanistan since the war began -- and his second for TIME -- and observed the fighting around Barikot. His report...