Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...courage of Juan Alberto Duarte of Paraguay is incandescent. He runs every step of his 300-meter heat with a crooked, skipping swing of his legs, and twice, on nothing but determination, manages to pass the runner ahead of him. But in the end he is last, the ninth of nine. Only eight medals and awards have been prepared. The officials do not know what to do. Eunice Kennedy Shriver does, however. She hotfoots it down from the stands, gives Duarte a second hug and decrees that he get a medal for extraordinary heroism. She is entitled to such expansiveness...
...garrison at San Jose de Bocay in north-central Nicaragua. Although the Defense Ministry in Managua announced fewer casualties and a much less successful assault than contra leaders claimed, the insurgents said it was their biggest victory since the rebellion began six years ago. Contra military progress could help swing moderate lawmakers in favor of continued funding when the issue comes to a vote this fall...
...sale of arms to Iran might be regarded as a foreign policy aberration. The operation had only the most tangential connection with the Reagan Doctrine, even if one accepts the geopolitical justification of cultivating moderates in Iran to help swing a post-Khomeini government away from hostility to the U.S., and thus frustrate Soviet designs on a vital region. That justification was not much more than a rationalization for North, who initially horned in on the affair as the NSC's antiterrorist expert. His electronic messages to Poindexter spoke in the crudest terms of so many weapons to be traded...
...role on the Supreme Court. For more than 15 years Powell sought constantly to strike a balance between conflicting interests as well as between the court's liberal and conservative wings. He became the least predictable of the nine Justices and perhaps the court's central figure, casting the swing vote in one 5-to-4 decision after another. His resignation last week gave Ronald Reagan the chance to tilt the court more sharply to the right, perhaps for decades, by appointing a more sternly and consistently conservative Justice. Said Paul Gewirtz, professor of law at Yale: "This...
...time not fully backed by any other Justice, influenced what came to be the court's general approach in employment as well as education: race-conscious goals are permissible so long as they do not become permanent, rigid quota systems. In the term just concluded, Powell cast the swing vote in upholding a promotion plan for black Alabama state troopers. But the Reagan Administration has been campaigning to abolish numerical hiring and promotion goals for minorities and women, and Powell could be replaced by a Justice who agrees with the Administration position...