Word: swing
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...well as a blessing. As the corn rises speedily, so does a forest of new silos that signals a crop-storage problem of epic proportions. All across the corn belt, from Indiana to Nebraska and Missouri to Minnesota, a binge of bin and silo building is in full swing. Reason: by the end of summer, U.S. farmers and the Department of Agriculture will be buried under more excess wheat, corn, rice and other products than ever before in history. Last week the immensity of the surplus became clear in the marketplace, as commodities traders sent the price of corn futures...
...Each swing brings to the fore a series of questions. What is the role of the state in enforcing the morality of its citizenry? How far should government go in regulating private conduct? Is morality a question of individual rights? Or should the state play an active role in nurturing values deemed worthy by the community...
...when it moved, it was typically with a lumbering tread, tilting and veering with the shifts of the Justices at its center: Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, White and the late Potter Stewart. The Burger era may be remembered as one in which the centrists played the crucial role as swing votes in a court that was always swaying. But durable voting blocs were hard to forge among Justices who faced the divisive task of implementing broad principles that the Warren Court had merely sketched out: first the agreeable axioms of equality, then the vexing arithmetic of affirmative action...
Reagan is able "go on to bigger issues and not swing with each and every political wind," Baker said...
...eager as they come. Richard and Shirley Brownstein have spent the past three years looking for an affordable house in a Chicago suburb while they lived with their two sons, 6 and 3, in a two- bedroom apartment. When interest rates tumbled, the couple was finally able to swing a mortgage and buy a home. In July they will move into a three- bedroom ranch house in Woodridge, Ill. (price: $90,000). Says Richard, a credit supervisor for J.I. Case, a farm-equipment manufacturer: "If we didn't buy a house this year, we wouldn...