Word: swing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President, returning from a grueling campaign swing through four New England states, took a helicopter to the White House rather than going to Camp David as planned; reporters speculated that he was meeting secretly with Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin. Just before 10 p.m., the economic advisers slipped into the White House by side doors. Solomon had excused himself from a dinner party at which he was the host by saying he had to meet some steel-industry officials. In a one-hour meeting with Carter in the basement map room, where they were least likely to be observed, they cemented...
...program as of potential benefit to ghetto youths, and organized labor, which already is very unhappy with Carter. Last week AFL-CIO President George Meany denounced the Stage II wage-price guidelines as unfair and demanded a special session of Congress to establish mandatory controls. He also took a swing at the dollar-rescue program, contending that higher interest rates would hurt workers. The President's cold response, delivered by telephone to a forum in St. Louis: "We got about as much cooperation from Mr. Meany as we had expected...
...surge may prove to be only statistical. Productivity figures, Stokes concedes, "bounce around a lot." But even if the figures swing down again, U.S. industry could brandish a new study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on the relative competitiveness of 24 major industrial countries. It found that, largely as a consequence of the dollar's drop and rising world prices, the U.S. now enjoys the lowest production costs and highest profit margins of all the 24. Steeply rising U.S. export and import prices relative to all other OECD countries, including Japan and West Germany, provided...
...photocopied in the novel so that the fictional Manuel, and all of the real Manuels who may be involved in the struggle some day, will know what their elders were fighting against. But there is no real attempt to examine the causes of right-wing terror or the pendulum swing left to counterterror...
Most experts agree that the current national flurry of general education reforms marks a swing of the pendulum back to the way curricula were before '60's campus activists forced many university administrations to abolish or loosen course requirements. Now that campuses are quiet again, faculties are starting to regret their loss of control over students' educations. Many of the reasons cited for curricular reforms sound like the same ones the fathers of general education offered in the early 1900s at places like Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. The speeches are so much alike they prompted critic Alston...