Word: sway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became so infatuated with aggressive investigation, so sure that a scandal lurked behind every closed door, that eventually a disdainful public began to comment on the "post-Watergate syndrome." Nowhere did the syndrome take hold more than at the Post itself, and nowhere does it hold more sway. A tone of suspicion, often anger, pervades many news stories. Some political pieces sound more like editorials: a reporter's interpretive rebuttal often appears higher in the story than the official statement he or she is rebutting, especially in stories about the Reagan Administration's policy in Central America...
such a determinedly anti-union stance is inappropriate at a reportedly liberal institution. Both earlier organizing drives saw bitter propaganda, with each side trying to sway the secretaries, administrative aides, researchers and lab technicians who would vote whether or not to have the union represent them. There were allegations of impropriety on both sides and it is almost curtain that such bitterness will resurface if the union gathers sufficient strength...
...policy talk, there is not that much that separates the only two real candidates. Unlike 1968 and 1972, no single issue holds sway, and ideology is now a word associated with the Republicans. Even Mondale, his candidacy disappearing like water through a sieve, would concede that he and Hart differ only superficially on the bread and butter issues...
...reasons to vote for the former senator in tomorrow's primary. Since entering politics in the early 1950s. McGovern has been a forceful and articulate proponent of what is best in the liberal tradition of the Democratic Party, and he has not let the cynicism of the Reagan era sway him from those convictions. Amid a pack of hopefuls tripping over themselves in their eagerness to disassociate themselves from traditional Democratic concerns. McGovern has force fully reaffirmed his standing as "a liberal...
...with the NCAA expected to invite just one Ivy school as they did--McLaughlin turned to the NIT. There, he tried to use the Crimson's two victories this season over the Tigers to sway the selection committee...