Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power of Hawke's personality has so far given Labor a 52%-to-42% lead in the latest polls. A state election two weeks ago in Western Australia resulted in a startling 7.8% swing to Labor, which now controls four of Australia's seven regions. But Labor has often before led in the polls and lost at the polling booths. If Fraser is the man many Australians love to hate, Hawke may be the one they are loath to embrace. The Australian Financial Review, for example, portrays Hawke as "everybody's mate, but maybe not the person...
...fated McGovern campaign. He is included in the somewhat nebulous group known as "neo-liberals," who stress the need for a pragmatic approach by business, labor and Government to adapt the economy to an era of high technology. The theme of the election, he said on a campaign swing through Mississippi after his announcement, is "Who represents the future the best?" Hart has put together reams of position papers (and a book to be published next month) dealing with his ideas on making the military stronger but less bloated, reforming the tax code with a "consumption tax," and guiding...
...woman who answered the phone in the Bowdoin Athletic Office yesterday didn't even know the school had a woman's hockey team. And on the home swing of its two-day trip through Maine, the Harvard squad almost overlooked that fact...
...Crimson victories this year, though, no one or two players could carry the team. Ferry's scoring would have been all for naught and Dixon's free throws wouldn't have happened if swing man Dave Bernard hadn't come through on defense...
...vignettes later, however, they swing back from the sarcasm verging on the theater of the absurd in Acting to the tender sincerity of Watching the SLEEPING Lover. As MAN sleeps, WOMAN contemplates him, musing. "You look like my child." The familiar form of the words--a monologue addressed to a silent lover--assists the poetry in the lines: "I embrace you in sleep; my arm moves with your breathing...