Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most candidates in 1988 will focus wistfully on new ways to engage Government, business and labor in projects to solve problems and help people. It will never again be the all-daddy Government of the New Deal, they say, but neither will it be the shrunken Reagan version. "The swing is away from what you could call the laissez-faire approach of Ronald Reagan to one that takes a more active, compassionate approach to those in true need," says Republican Mayor William Hudnut of Indianapolis. "It is a ground swell gaining force...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. suggests that there are 30-year cycles of American history that swing between eras of liberalism and conservatism -- periods he calls Private Interest and Public Purpose...
...change now occurring is emphatically not a simple pendulum swing back from conservatism to New Deal liberalism. The change is more complex, more interesting. By the end of the '70s, Americans understood that from the '30s on, the welfare state had grown almost unrestrained. The left-leaning populism that bashed Big Business gave way to a right-leaning populism, one that produced tax revolts like California's Proposition...
...This swing has been spurred by the insider-trading scandals, which find considerable resonance with Americans. Says Pollster Field: "The public doesn't distinguish between Wall Street and Big Business. I see Big Business becoming a target in 1988." Deputy Treasury Secretary Richard Darman, one of the intellectual turbines of the Reagan revolution, masterminded last year's successful push for tax reform. He has attempted to formulate a conservative populism that would save the Reagan Administration from being inextricably tied in the public mind with Big Business and Wall Street. Darman has used the term corpocracy to describe the bloated...
...door swings open, I step inside and press 27 quickly. Just as I think my escape is assured, the woman squeezes her body between the closing doors, forcing them to swing open in deference to her protruding belly. I then watch in horror as she attempts to press the 20th floor button. She hits 17, then 19, 22, 24, 26, 18, and then 12. I resolve that people whose fingers cannot function according to their will should ask for assistance in elevators, otherwise they deserve...