Word: sways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bandstand memories. A trio or quartet of young women in identical dresses, heavy on the sequins and feathers, sway in gentle syncopation as they mouth the words to their new hit record. They have the rough, "found" beauty of stenos or inner-city cheerleaders, and they run through their number with artless urgency, as if they realize that this is their one fluky shot at stardom. They sing of the idealized male, who needs both adoration and protection: the angel baby, the rebel, the leader of the pack, the playboy, the soldier boy, the fine fine...
That justification didn't sway Dr. Mark Glier, a great scientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a leading opponent of the project. "Even in the unlikely chance that a plane crashes into a laboratory or a terrorist group acquires the newly-cloned strain and puts it into a city's water supply, the results could be more of a disaster than the atomic bomb...
...last word before the vote belonged to Speaker Tip O'Neill, who related how, as a young Congressman in 1953, he had witnessed two nuclear explosions on test sites in Nevada. But that personalized testimony seemed not to sway many votes. On the contrary, by week's end some supporters of an immediate freeze were blaming the narrow loss on the failure of the House Democratic leadership to endorse formally the Zablocki measure...
...public, Dershowitz's histrionics have probably eclipsed his effective advocacy on behalf of civil liberties and ostracized defendants. That's too bad; he'd sway more minds if more people took him seriously and didn't just think of him as that angry young professor with the long hair and loud voice. But even in the procedure-heavy field of law, with its emphasis on form, the bottom line is that substance still matters more than style. The legal profession probably would be better off if other lawyers began to risk their reputations by joining Dershowitz at "the constitutional barricades...
...time when unemployment in the Community has reached a postwar record of an estimated 9.5%. Both Mitterrand and Schmidt have repeatedly explained to Washington that Western Europe's defense capability is inextricably linked to its economic well-being and social stability. That view so far has failed to sway the White House, where aides blamed Haig for having misled the Western Europeans into thinking that Reagan had agreed to soften his opposition to the pipeline. In fact, when Reagan left Versailles, unhap py over the soft European stand on credit to the Soviet bloc, he still had not made...