Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third swing at trying to nominate a Supreme Court Justice, Ronald Reagan adopted the strategy followed by many a batter on the verge of striking out: he stopped going for the home run and tried for the political equivalent of a clean single. Rather than again choosing a hard-line ideologue to replace the moderate Lewis Powell, the President last week selected the kind of jurist many of his pragmatic supporters felt he should have chosen at the start. Indeed, he picked the very man they had been urging from the beginning: Anthony Kennedy, a thoroughly experienced appeals-court judge...
...judicial restraint is the question of whether a person is going to reverse a Supreme Court decision that is now part of the fabric of society." Even if it is not reversed, however, Roe could be modified. Like Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Kennedy could end up as a swing vote, helping to refine the boundaries of the right to abortion, based on changing medical and social circumstances...
...that play, Reif broke away from the Crimson defenders to send a 20-yard swing shot at net. Hall dove left and cleared the ball away with one hand to send the game into overtime...
...seventh School Committee member will be determined when the Independent-dominated City Council chooses a mayor. Their choice will provide the swing vote on the Committee...
...special Cambridge page and Lo and Behold! I found my name to be in the Harvard Crimson Editorial column. I came across a paragraph that said "Incumbent Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's unique brand of populism includes crucial support for rent control--he provides the outgoing Council's fifth. "swing" vote to protect the system. Vellucci, however, opposes the CCA candidates' effort to create a "linkage" program that would help alleviate the pressures of development by requiring large-scale builders to add to the stock of affordable housing." I read the paragraph which concerns Al Vellucci two times through...