Word: swayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Advancement of Colored People has faced snarling police dogs, cross-burning Ku Klux Klansmen and murderous assaults on its members. But none of these posed as dangerous a threat to the N-Double-A's continued survival as the group's own recent leadership. Under the feckless sway of William F. Gibson, an inarticulate but wily South Carolina dentist who has chaired the group since 1985, the organization has sunk into near bankruptcy--both financially and intellectually. Says Michael Meyers, a former n.a.a.c.p. staff member who now leads the New York Civil Rights Coalition: ``The N.A.A.C.P. has become a laughingstock...
GESO has also tried using rallies, marches andpetitions to sway the administration. Leaders saythey're using the successful 1984 election driveof Local 34 as a model...
...citizens rely heavily on Peru and Ecuador. Expatriate and emigre Peruvians and Ecuadorans aren't numerous or powerful enough in this country to sway opinion for U.S. involvement...
...sway a national election likeAfrican-Americans can," Woo says...
Skyscrapers built to sway with a buckling earth and low-rise buildings that sit on rubber pads that act like shock absorbers, a common feature of hospital design, have proved their worth. In Kobe it appears that few, if any, buildings constructed after 1980, when a stricter code was enacted, were destroyed. And the widespread wreckage of wooden houses in Kobe is no clue to what might happen elsewhere; wooden houses in Northridge, built to a very different pattern, stood up well...