Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What one member of the British Commonwealth observer group called "the sheer sweep of maladministration" forced interminable queues of voters to wait for more than twelve hours at many polling booths. As a result, there was a second, unscheduled day of balloting. Even as the votes were counted, the ruling military commission headed by Paulo Muwanga first imposed, and then reversed, a highhanded decision to withhold the election results and even nullify them. Finally, after conflicting victory claims by the rival parties, the first official results showed that the apparent winner was the broadly based United People's Congress...
SURELY SOME REVELATION is at hand. Conservatives immediately proclaimed their victory in November as a watershed in American economic and social policy. They plan no less than their own New Deal to sweep out at least a decade's worth of uninspired and ineffectual liberalism. The traditional Keynesian policies of government spending and job creation sit battered on the ropes along with their Democratic sponsors. As productivity replaces equality as the nation's key objective of social policy, regulation and humanitarian programs await the scissors of congressional budget cutters...
...from decades of neglect and vandalism. It would take an estimated $150 million to save them all. "It sure looked better then," admits Sophie. The low-slung main building of warm red brick with limestone trim has large paned windows to let in air and light. Trees and lawns sweep to the gently lapping waters of the harbor. But at the time, immigrants like Sophie did not notice such things. They simply felt lost, especially in the great registry hall, where 5,000 immigrants a day were processed. A constant babble of incomprehensible tongues rose like flocks of starlings...
...sure win. The only trouble was, they started a little too late. Never traditionally strong in the sprints and field events, Harvard soon found itself trailing 21-1. With half the events over, Bates sat tight with a 30-point lead. The Crimson would literally have to sweep all the remaining events...
...shot selection, Corrigan's quickness on the court frustrated McCabe's attempts to catch her out of position. After losing the first two games 15-5 and 15-3, McCabe began the third game with several drop shots, and led, 6-3. But Corrigan soon adjusted and completed the sweep...