Word: swaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...results may have primarily reflected the sway of personality politics, a phenomenon familiar to Americans but less known to Britons. Right up to the photo finish, the gentlemanly, mild-mannered Major bested Labour leader Neil Kinnock in popularity polls by 10 points. Although Kinnock delivered a slick performance that outshone Major's on the campaign trail, he could not shake the widely held perception that he is a rather ruthless opportunist who -- Bill Clinton, take note -- is not entirely to be trusted. Polls indicated that if Labour's shadow chancellor, the brainy, witty John Smith, had been party leader, Labour...
Proponents of the sale hope that labor-union pressure will sway recession- conscious politicians. Yet some members of Congress have been so adamant in their objections that neither the Administration nor the Saudi government has had an appetite for the battle so far. Democratic Congressman Mel Levine of California has collected more than 200 signatures of members who oppose the sale on the ground that it contradicts the Administration's own antiproliferation policy. "A lot of people believe a big weapons sale at this juncture is unwise," says Toby Dershowitz, spokeswoman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading...
...Leppard's new album, Adrenalize, is a knockout punch in a velvet glove. Combining hard and soft guitar, this album will sway even the most adamant opponent of hard rock...
Officially the U.S. government neither favors nor frowns on purchasing space technology from the Russians, but the lack of a clear-cut policy has enabled hard-liners to hold sway. Shutting out the Russians, though, may prove more dangerous than propping them up. Secretary of State James Baker announced in January that the U.S. would contribute $25 million toward an institute in Moscow that will employ Russian nuclear scientists and presumably keep them from hiring out to outlaw states such as Libya and Iraq. The same logic should apply to space scientists and hardware, which -- as the hard-liners themselves...
...seem now, a substantial minority of Jews welcomed Benito Mussolini's accession to power in 1922. He promised order in a land threatened by leftist chaos, and il Duce's brand of Fascism did not become ideologically anti- Semitic until he fell under Adolf Hitler's political sway during the mid-' 30s. To many Jews, patriotism became a near substitute for faith and for the ancient rituals they infrequently observed. Such was their loyalty to their homeland that on the so-called Day of Faith (Dec. 18, 1935), communities even donated gold and silver religious objects from their synagogues...