Word: swaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gabay thought the $18,000 price tag for They Might Be Giants, 20 percent more than the cost for Blind Melon, would sway some voters...
Harvard physicists lobbied extensively inWashington to save the supercollider--writingletters and visiting legislators--but were unableto sway vote...
When Fidel Castro and Deng Xiaoping die, Communism's last major scions will be gone. No successor in either Cuba or China has the same personal sway these two rulers have wielded. In China, by far the more important of the two nations, Communism appears to have devolved into a heavily regulated, semi-legal form of capitalism. Only North Korea, whose development program for nuclear weapons makes the news every week, can take the role of menacing outpost of Communism. Still, more nations than the United States would want to have a hand in the quelling of a belligerent nuclear...
...Clinton administration broached the topic ever-so-cautiously. That left ample opportunity for Colin Powell, the darling of the American public whose position on gays in the military was well known, to sway people to his side of the argument. A four-star general versus a draft dodger? No contest...
Figley, the older suspect, had boarded at Stevens' house, drunk with him at a bar called McGhan's, and was regarded locally as a harmless layabout under his younger friend's sway. Last June, Stevens sent Figley on a deadly errand ! to Mount Vernon, Kentucky, police say. There, under the name Leslie V. Milbury, Figley bought 55 lbs. of Power Prime dynamite. (Government officials later noted pointedly that explosives can be sold over the counter as easily as guns could before the Brady Bill.) Back in New York, the two used around 48 sticks' worth to craft last week...