Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...polls indicate overwhelming popular support for the law, but supporters fear that the well-funded corporate campaign may swing voters at the last minute. This year as in 1976 when a similar referendum was defeated, opponents have poured an unprecedented amount of money into the effort...
Pollsters are finding that in cases in which both candidates swing at each other, instead of touting their own merits, both may lose popularity. Says Robert Squier, who produces commercials, some of them negative, for Democrats: "You can end up with a situation where the voters say, 'If you want to fight it out, go do it alone.' " Unfortunately, this is not always the reaction. In the Iowa Governor's race, Democrat Roxanne Conlin ended a tailspin in the polls after she introduced ads charging that Republican Terry Branstad as a state legislator had voted against helping...
Many other factors were involved in the car's demise, not the least of which was the DMC-12 itself. True enough, it was sleek and racy, with a stainless-steel skin, a corrosion-resistant, glass-reinforced plastic underbody, a 130-h.p. Renault engine and gull-wing swing-up doors borrowed from the 1954 Mercedes sport coupe. But, doors aside, car critics could find nothing distinctive or terribly special about it. One described it as "clunky." Still, the car had its fans...
...debris is only dimly lighted by the sun and distant stars. Even the big Palomar mirror could not have found it without a highly sensitive silicon-chip light detector called a charge-coupled device (CCD), used in place of a photographic plate. When the comet approaches for its hairpin swing around the sun in 1986, solar radiation will boil off volatile material, creating a glowing head and characteristic tail and perhaps another heavenly spectacle...
Cambridge resident J. Glover Taylor said he plans to vote against what he calls a national swing towards conservatism this year. The choice between liberal and conservative candidates such as Dukakis and Sears is "particularly dramatic," he said...