Word: swaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beer and cigarette smoke mix in the darkness, giving way to an ambience of noisy excitement and adventure. Performers sway and jump, creating blurs in the colored spotlights. The experience is surreal: the blaring rhythms of the music, and the contrast between the darkness and tungsten highlights serve to envelop the senses, overwhelming reality...
...Your personal feelings about making the tapesand whether or not he should give them back to hercannot sway the day," Davis argued...
During his heyday, Carter employed out-of-work actors to call up corporate shareholders to try to sway their votes. "Actors know how to talk and when to listen," he claimed. In 1987 he sold his firm to a British ad agency for $76 million. Carter resigned from the organization in January, a year after learning about the investigation of his dealings. Now he faces up to four years in jail, and his former company has posted steep losses as clients defect to other firms...
...whether he would sign the bill, but he has been strongly antiabortion. The bill is designed to give the Supreme Court an opportunity to strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortions. The National Right to Life Committee helped draft the measure in an attempt to sway Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. She has said she would accept restrictions on abortion provided they were not "unduly burdensome" on women...
Whatever Rafsanjani's intentions, it is Iran's radical opposition, led by former Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashami, that maintains the closest ties with the hostage takers -- and even Mohtashami has only limited sway over them. Last week the Revolutionary Justice Organization, which has three hostages, vowed, "There is no intention to release hostages." Meanwhile, it was disclosed that last month President Bush accepted a phone call from an impostor claiming to be Rafsanjani. Though they do not know for sure, White House officials think the hoax was perhaps perpetrated by Mohtashami's faction to embarrass Rafsanjani...