Word: swellingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pushing through crowds, foraging forlornly for nonnews. At the convention's transcending moments, the big speeches, television is at its best. In San Francisco, these speeches were endlessly ballyhooed in advance in the irritating way television plugs prizefights or sitcoms to come. But if this iteration helped swell the crowd to hear the oratory of Governor Cuomo, Jesse Jackson or Fritz Mondale, much can be forgiven. These fine speeches reminded us that a skilled orator, adjusting intuitively to the crowd's response, employs a different and more demanding art than the numbing nattering of commentators. Television talk...
...most projections the deficit will continue to go up. Recalculating the figures after last week's tax changes and spending cuts, and assuming a roughly halfway compromise on military outlays, congressional budgeteers now predict $174.2 billion of red ink in fiscal 1984, which ends Sept. 30. That would swell during each of the following three fiscal years, to $201.2 billion in 1987. How then can anyone talk about deficit "reduction"? Only by calculating that if nothing were done, the gap would yawn even wider, to $269 billion three years from...
...Mazzoli, as passed by the House, has stirred so much controversy that it might kill the whole bill. It would permit farmers, mostly in California, to import migrants to pick crops that would otherwise rot for lack of field hands. Opponents charge that those "guest workers"-the total might swell to 500,000-would be cruelly exploited. Cesar Chavez, president of the 40,000-member United Farm Workers, calls the provision a "rent-a-slave" program; the AFL-CIO and Senator Simpson also denounce it. The provision will probably be modified or dropped in the House-Senate conference...
Some gadgetry from Japan and its Asian neighbors helps swell the confusion. Says Bob Budnek, a former Atlanta audio consultant: "The instructions are written in Japan, translated in Japan and printed in Japan, and sometimes the intention of making it clear to people in English does not come through." For example, the directions for one Japanese-made turntable cartridge advise, "Furthermore, cantilever would be damaged when the stylus guard is touched and detouched." Even simple points about simple products can get lost in translation. The instructions for Swimotor, a Hong Kong-made toy that pulls children through water, warn that...
...neighboring Brazil, government leaders found themselves painfully squeezed between the IMF and its sister agency, the World Bank. The bank wants to lend Brazil $1.4 billion for major devel opment projects, but the credit has been held up because it would swell Brazil's money supply beyond limits set by the IMF as a condition...