Word: seesawing
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...overrode legislative machinery that Congress had designed specifically to give itself permanent control of the budget process. For the moment at least, dazed lawmakers will have to accept, reject or amend presidential proposals rather than enact their own. The President's triumph was the latest skirmish in a seesaw struggle over spending that has gone on since the founding days of the 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...
...game full of surprises and mistakes; Brown was lucky to be on the high end of the seesaw when the clock...
Assisting Aikman was TIME'S Robert Slater, who interviewed former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and former Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan. Slater found that the fortunes of Israeli leaders are as unpredictable as the country. Says he: "Israeli politics is like the proverbial seesaw: it goes up one month and descends the next." Correspondent Marlin Levin, who has covered Israel off and on since 1948, spoke with a cross section of citizens - from mothers to officeworkers to university professors - to assess the national mood. "When I first came here as a correspondent for the United Press, life went on under...
Harvard's goal scorer, Francesca Den Hartog, kept the seesaw effect going, knocking in her only goal of the game on a blistering free shot attempt midway through the half...
Interviews are like riding a seesaw. If a player prevails too easily, one end bangs to the ground. There should be no automatic victors-neither overbearing interviewers nor subjects too slickly practiced in evasion. The real winner is supposed to be a third party, the public...