Word: sways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alexander and Ben Nighthorse Campbell, directly addressed the responsibility of parents, but stopped short of blaming these particular parents. Such specificity of guilt is uncomfortable for America, which prefers vague, generalized culprits less offensive to its smiley-face sensibilities -- and where tales of childhood beating are somehow supposed to sway the jury in the trial of Charles Ng, who tortured and murdered 11 people. Thus such intangibles as the Internet, Goth culture and "The Basketball Diaries" (which was pulled from video store shelves Thursday by MGM) will all take their lumps, as Ozzy Osbourne and "Natural Born Killers" did before...
These kind of advertisements, whether true or not (usually not), generally sway the voters. 95 percent of the candidates running for Congress this year who outspent their opponents won their seat. One of the few exceptions was Wisconsin, where the voters said, "Give us our government back...
According to Chao, 91 percent of first-years surveyed Wednesday said they would like to see a similar program in the Yard. Chao said he hopes these results will sway the FDO toward allowing more box installations...
...Cambridge stepped up its effort to gain ashare of federal crime-fighting dollars. Itmounted an extensive lobbying campaign, targetinglawmakers who held sway in Congress...
...just sucks in a genial bar-rock kind of way. I could single out some songs for being egregiously inferior, but why rub their in it? The Pretty Things deserve to be every bit as rich and famous as the Stones, but this is not evidence likely to sway anyone. Benjamin L. McKean