Word: swaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even more irrational is the fear that this disenfranchised 2 percent of the population will overpower the political will of the more trustworthy 98 percent. Although the effect of these laws on the voting power of minorities may be significant, as a whole their repeal would do little to sway elections. Massachusetts allows its felons to vote even while in prison and the Commonwealth has not yet dissolved into anarchy...
Whether a divisive but direct debate will holdtogether Paul Cellucci's fractious coalition ofblue-collar Democrats, Republicans, andindependents--or sway enough undecided voters togive Scott Harshbarger the edge--is a matter forthe Commonwealth to decide
...courtrooms already saddled with the heavy demands of proof. As Judge Stang says, you don't want to send hate off to the forensic lab to prove what kind it is. Unlike intent, he says, motive isn't a separate element of a crime. It simply provides narrative to sway a jury or give plot to a novel...
...this adds up to perhaps the gravest challenge to global capitalism since the Great Depression. And suddenly everyone from Malaysia's dictatorial Mahathir Mohamad to President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are calling for reform of the international monetary system that has held sway for a half-century. Their ideas range from Mahathir's ban on currency trading in depression-mired Malaysia to the Clinton Administration's talk of a new "global financial architecture" that would preserve a relatively free flow of capital while reducing the volatility of world financial markets. Says Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin: "Clearly...
Surrounding the kelp is a dense and delicate garden of tentacled plants that sway in unison, like backup singers. Pink, orange, rose, green, lavender. Plants with Einstein's hair, plants with Don King's and Phyllis Diller's--all kept graceful by the water. The garden is vertical as well as horizontal. On its floor sea stars crawl on their bellies like fat recruits in basic training. Above them swim the gulping bells of the jellies. In the intertidal zone limpets and other mollusks graze on algae in the rocks. Cancer crabs attack hermit crabs. An anemone divides to reproduce...