Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential campaigns, the list now contains tens of millions of voter names, along with each one's age, address, telephone number, party enrollment, ethnic origin and income level. Not to be out- teched, the Democrats have launched their own computer initiative, an ambitious effort to identify some 16 million swing voters who might be persuaded to switch allegiance at the last minute...
...mining of Nicaraguan harbors or the many permutations of the Boland amendment, which blocked military aid to the contras, each vote sparked ugly, divisive battles. Last year's Iran- contra scandal has only added to the bitterness. In the past, Reagan was able to win over key swing votes in White House arm-twisting sessions. Last week, however, many undecided Congressmen refused even to meet with the President. "I told him I'm going to make this decision in the quietness of my own thought processes," said Wes Watkins, an Oklahoma Democrat. "I've got a 17- year...
...Customs Commissioner William von Raab begs to differ. "Occasionally they swing some poor slob out to make us feel they're cooperating," he says. "But it's nobody close to Noriega." Von Raab condemns the view that a pact with the devil is better than no pact at all: "At some point you become owned by the devil...
...they tumbled again. In fact, two of the largest financial markets last week took pre- emptive steps to lessen their volatility. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which handles trading in stock-index futures, proposed new daily limits on how far the price of a futures contract should be permitted to swing, and called for greater coordination between the stock and futures markets. At the New York Stock Exchange, directors voted to restrict futures-based program trading on the Big Board whenever the Dow Jones industrial average rises or falls 50 points or more in a day. At this rate, the markets...
...trailing Bob Dole in the polls. For a candidate seeking to generate support from conservatives, getting mugged by Dan Rather and then beating him off was the political equivalent of winning a Purple Heart. "I can't really explain it, but a chord was hit," Bush said during a swing through South Dakota two days later. "I suppose people saw a guy up there by himself, standing up for what he believes...