Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget cuts may swing the boom-bust pendulum a little bit one way or the other, but the fact remains that disinvestment began to gather momentum long before Reagan ever reared his Brylcreemed head. Bluestone and Harrison's book demands that readers of all political stripes face the fact that investment, and how to increase it--not this budget plan or that--is the economic issue for the '80s. Deindustrialization is a problem that has been brewing for a long time, and it will require a fundamental and far-reaching solution...
...achieve so tilted an orbit. As to just when Cosmos 1402 might strike, one U.S. intelligence officer said: "We'll be able to make some hard calculations about the time and place of landing when the satellite's period [the time it takes to make a complete swing around the earth] degrades to 87.4 minutes." Last week Cosmos 1402 was circling once every 89.3 minutes...
...crisis, University officials announce the introduction of a new "Halibut-lock" on portions of the dish, and offer tuition discounts to those who brave it. But some officials privately speculate that the real culprits are Bulgarian terrorists. Asked about the crisis, Presidential candidate John Glenn, on a campaign swing through Cambridge, calls for "research and development, of course...
...controlled better than they were during the lameduck session. In addition, Reagan, who up to now has had great success in persuading Congress to do his bidding, must show that he also has the flexibility to work with the institution when it asserts more independence. Otherwise, the pendulum will swing from a Congress that once had blind faith in Reagan's policies to one that is blindly determined to stop them. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Neil MacNeil and Evan Thomas/Washington
...third field goal of the day with four seconds left beat the New York Giants, 15-14, and made the record 21. "I had no idea what yard line it was on," said Moseley, an uncomplicated man who leaves mental check lists to golfers. "All I do is swing my leg straight." Even though it was tipped by a Giant, the ball twirled the needed...