Word: sways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than a government planner's dictating what a society should produce, consumers themselves decide what they buy. They vote in the marketplace. This is not invalidated by the fact that the votes?and the market?can sometimes be manipulated. Capitalist bosses, for all their power, have far less real sway over people than Communist planners...
...languish according to their own abilities. But when early Enlightenment thinkers began to propagate that simple philosophy in the 18th century, it represented a scandalous revolution in a world in which the individual was merely a subject of caste, church and state. Europe for centuries had been under the sway of authority and tradition. Everyone had a place, and there was no place for an entrepreneur. The early Church Father St. Jerome had said it all: "A man who is a merchant can seldom if ever please...
...Rubber, as well as their own corporation. People said they owned the state of Delaware--and, in a way, they did. Individual du Ponts owned most of the state's prime real estate, both major newspapers and the major industries. One cousin, Alfred I. du Pont, held similar sway over Florida...
...halcyon days of Kansas City jazz have gone forever, and the sad scraps of film that survive--hokey period pieces which show these great musicians transformed by the miracle of Hollywood into grinning antebellum darkies who sway to the beat of their most commercial pieces--obviously fail to recover the real spirit of the era. The Last of the Blue Devils is no substitute for the films that a more perfect world would have made in those days. Most of the Kansas City players have passed their prime, and much of their music has become cliched and formulaic. But Ricker...
...defended his nomination of Arnold C. Harberger to head the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) last month at Lowell House on the pinnacles of academic freedom. The strident voices of politicized students who objected to Harberger's ties with the oppressive Pinochet government in Chile can not sway him, he argued; that would lower academic appointments from their eminence and subject them to the shifting tides of the external political environment. Attacks on Harberger today could then turn into attacks on left-wing appointments if the national mood suddenly shifted to the far right...