Word: swayings
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...variety of special interests-some old, some new and better organized. It was not the Federal Government but blocs of farmers who in reality determined the policies of the Agriculture Department. Broadening the powers of the Interior Department gave timber interests more incentive to exercise sway over government. The Army Corps of Engineers responded to the demands of local developers. Direct federal control, so widely asserted in theory, became more and more attenuated in practice...
...been carried handsomely by KANU in the previous election, the district in May gave a lopsided victory to the candidate of the Kenya People's Union, the opposition party headed by an emotional Luo leftist, Oginga Odinga. Realizing that many Luo tribesmen had come under Odinga's sway, President Jomo Kenyatta asked Mboya to undertake an emergency reorganization of KANU before national elections, which must be held before next June. Mboya, a member of Kenyatta's Cabinet and a possible, if not likely successor, was hard at work when he was shot...
...must bear the cost of any injuries they may suffer. Helpers weighing the possible risks of intervening are also concerned about losing their freedom, says University of Wisconsin Psychologist Leonard Berkowitz. When one person helps another, says Berkowitz, the helper almost inevitably feels that he has come under the sway of the person whom he is assisting...
...specific problems, and the internal pressures?economic, military and political?within the Soviet Union have raised the question: What is Communism today? Some Kremlinologists suggest that the best way to seek an answer is to view the Soviet Union as a latter-day empire seeking to maintain its sway...
...have to develop at colleges some form of countervailing power. What now exists is a largely autocratic system that holds sway over issues that transcend the academic, such as the future of the city of Cambridge and cooperation with national foreign policy that necessarily means placing a stamp of approval on things like the war in Vietnam...