Word: swaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occupied territories. Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud bloc leader who succeeded Labor's Shimon Peres as Prime Minister last year, is much less willing than his predecessor to negotiate a settlement. With no prospect of political talks, the people of Gaza and the West Bank are falling under the sway of Islamic fundamentalism. In Gaza last week the mosques helped fan the unrest among embittered young men no longer afraid of becoming martyrs...
...four-wheel-steer car, this high-speed sway can be damped or even eliminated through the use of same-side steering. When the rear wheels are turned at the same time and in the same direction as the front wheels, the back end turns with the front, and the cornering forces occur at both axles simultaneously. The car slides smoothly to the side without sway or fishtail...
...Iran-Contra affair will go down in history as the beginning of the end of the Reagan Administration's sway over American politics, Harvard professors said yesterday reacting to the Congressional report released Wednesday...
...author's tenth novel suggests that she was not stymied at all; she was merely waiting for current events to provide her with enough material for a new book. The Radiant Way is, among other things, a chronicle of some five years of British life under the sway of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and & the Tory party. Drabble's fictional characters must cope on a regular basis with a changing political landscape. They are spirited, intelligent, opinionated and hardly passive, but their destinies are not under their own control. Government budget cuts can render them redundant, cost them their jobs...
...moment the bulls held sway -- barely -- despite the scorching they received on Black Monday. Their derring-do sent the Dow Jones industrial average up 42.77 points last week, to close at 1993.53. Fueled mainly by large institutional investors, the rise was the first feeble recovery following the back-to-back record weekly drops of 235.48 and 295.98 points earlier this month. Even so, the market's comeback is nascent, to say the least. The Dow now stands 729 points, or 27%, below its August peak of 2722. In terms of lost value, U.S. stocks remain $850 billion below their recent...