Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard used the southern swing as a chance to test its depleted pitching staff and work out a couple of other questions in the lineup--including the situation at the corners. First sacker Elliott Rivera and third baseman Scott Vierra--who combined for 90 hits and a .356 batting average last year--both graduated, and the batsmen are still not set with definite replacements at those positions...
...station after a near total power failure, and a highly sophisticated radar mapping of Venus by two robot Venera probes. Earlier this month the Soviets dazzled the international scientific community with their Vega 1 and Vega 2 inspections of Halley's comet. Each Vega flyby was preceded by a swing past Venus to drop an instrument-laden balloon into the planet's dense atmosphere...
...John McKernan (R-Maine) a swing vote, said that while he was still undecided, the new proposal made him more likely to vote for the $100 million...
...since varied between 30 and 70 tons. Stewart estimates that the loss of surface ice causes Halley's to shrink 20 ft. to 30 ft. in diameter each time it passes the sun. At that rate, he says, the comet's nucleus, now about four miles in diameter, will swing close to the sun hundreds of times before Halley's disappears forever...
...many educators these quantum changes, both in numbers and life-style, , are a reflection of the swing toward Establishment values and conservatism on campuses. Virginia's assistant dean of students, Terry Appolonia, confirms that today's collegians "are seeking more and more ties to the Establishment." Mitchel Livingston, Ohio State's dean of student life, says, "They want to be part of a group which has similar ideas and values to their own." He adds, "Fraternities and sororities are the answer. It's all part of the trend to affiliate with an organization...