Word: swaying
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...people had more or less bet their careers on it, and some of them were hunkered down in this Seattle hotel room. The participants belonged to the 1,500-member Color Marketing Group, the Virginia-based color cartel that has held a largely unknowing public under its sway for more than 30 years. It was the CMG that forecast avocado refrigerators in the late '60s and mauve motel rooms in the '70s and hunter-green automobiles in the '90s. And it was the CMG that predicted the 1996 consumer palette would be, in the words of former president Laraine Turner...
...hearing that after further interviews with Kay he believes she suffers from post-traumatic-stress disorder, resulting from the years of abuse by her deceased husband. "I don't think this woman poses a threat," Dr. Voltin says. "[She] felt backed against the wall." It is too late to sway the court, however: in October Kay gave up her right to further appeal in return for a reduced plea to second-degree murder...
Pause. "What are the rest of the words?" In consternation and frustration, I belt out "blah, blah, blah, blah, o'er Eli hold sway." Panicked, I realize that I do not know the words to Harvard's favorite cheer. Who am I kidding: not only do I not know some of the words; I can't even get through the first verse...
...environmentalists. Loggers in the Cascade Mountains, millworkers in towns like Roseburg ("Timber Capital of the Nation") and eastern Oregon farmers and ranchers, however, are more conservative, fueling the ongoing "lumber wars" and keeping the state's delegation to the House divided. In the Senate, two Republicans have held sway for nearly 30 years, but the party's dominance may be coming to an abrupt end: earlier this year, the disgraced Bob Packwood was replaced by a Democrat, and now Mark Hatfield is retiring...
Japan is not unaccustomed to drama, but transforming catharsis is still a rarity. In the past three years and three months, the country has witnessed the fall of a virtual dictatorship--a party that had held sway for 38 uninterrupted years--and endured a succession of Prime Ministers that was practically Italian in its instability. The economy, once the envy of the world, has only now begun to emerge from four years of stagnation. Yet despite all appearances of revolution, the regime remains the same in the eyes of most Japanese. The nation is ruled not by the parliament...