Word: swing
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This score brought the UMass players and the home crowd to life. The momentum continued to swing away from Harvard as the Unicorns began controlling the ball and the flow of the game, taking the lead, 10-9, with two penalty kicks...
Councilor Alfred E. Velluci has acted as the swing vote in rent control debates, and last night he sided--as he has often in the past--with members...
...Irish pols were running the city, formed the CCA in the 1940s, and for a long time the organization was dominated by a sort of Yankee Republicanism, distinguished by a distaste for corruption and a desire for efficiency. With the turbulence of the Vietnam era, that changed. The swing leftward on national issues among the well-to-do, especially the academic well-to-do, translated on the local level into support for rent control and other programs designed to aid the poor. All of a sudden, having a diverse city was as important as a clean city or an efficiently...
...thing about pendulums, though, is that they always swing back. There are signs that the CCA romance with the left--with the city's disadvantaged--may be fading. Or perhaps it is not so much the CCA itself, for its platform still expressed unequivocal support for rent control and limits on condominium conversion. The change instead may be with the traditional CCA voters, and if their mood is shifting, then most likely the organization will quickly scurry to the right. Increasingly, Brattle St. voters seem more worried about issues that affect them--tax assessments are the prime example--than about...
Velasquez' goal now is not numbers but results. California and Texas, both with substantial Mexican-American populations, control a substantial portion of the electoral votes for the presidency. Mexican-Americans in those states, Velasquez posits, have the potential to swing "the votes necessary to become president...