Word: swaying
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...surprised to learn that even the Harvard Film Archive, indifferent to the sway of popular appetites, uncompromising in its commitment to noncommercial films, can't escape fiscal pressures. And it dawns on me that it's a lucky thing there's a market for the sort of films that get shown in a setting built around that kind a commitment. It's a lucky thing that the unpopular films the Archives show are as popular as they...
...Meanwhile Janet Reno, whose Justice Department was not represented at the grillings, still has until December 2 to decide whether to summon that independent counsel. "These sessions were more or less expected," Tumulty says. "This may not sway her at all. But this is certainly a reminder that the clock is ticking." Which could explain the silent treatment...
...Veterans' Day, diplomacy holds sway as Washington opts to deal with Saddam Hussein via the United Nations. More
...overall cause lost a lot of momentum when a big government study came out in 1966 contending that student achievement is not very closely related to school spending levels. Ever since then, the idea that you can't fix substandard local schools by throwing money at them has held sway...
...that may be too much buck and too little bang to sway a Congress averse to social spending. But even as they went about savaging the national-test plan last week, the White House's opponents on the Hill proffered an expensive alternative. "Rather than spend [millions] on one more test," Goodling said, "House Republicans and many Democrats would rather send federal dollars directly to the classroom." Sounds surprisingly un-Republican. Did we mention that 1998 is an election year...