Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets will be hard pressed to have the high-school computer program in full swing by the Politburo's September deadline. Western experts doubt that enough computers will be available to equip all the schools. Even if the ; machines arrive, there will probably be shortages of computer textbooks and teachers who know how to use them. "There are still many obstacles," admits an article about the new computer program in Pravda, the official party newspaper...
After a few sessions with consultants, presto! the door to the executive suite should swing wide open. Right? Well, no. Basics still matter. In Live for Success, Molloy reports that of 1,000 men and women interviewed, nearly all agreed that success depends more on energy than image. All the image consulting in the world cannot help the true corporate loser. Nor can it cure incompetence. Nonetheless, Molloy found that most people believe that speaking, moving and dressing correctly are critical to getting ahead. The office slob remains so at his or her peril...
...White House spokesman refused to say why St. John's was selected as a site for Reagan's visit, which followed a swing through the New York stock Exchange. But one official told The New York Times, "We were just looking for an invitation in New York, We went through the computer-we had this invitation on file...
...think we will see a swing away from mastectomies," predicted Dr. Bernard Fisher of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who headed the study, though he conceded that "old ways die hard." Indeed, many surgeons argue that until ten-year results are available, the case for lumpectomy will remain unproved...
...camel-borne nomads at a refugee camp in central Sudan, which is struggling to accommodate some 600,000 starving Ethiopians. Accompanied by his wife Barbara, dozens of officials, private figures like TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, and a gaggle of reporters, Vice President George Bush was on a six-day swing through famine-plagued Africa that also took him to Mali and Niger. "When you see a little child a year old weighing five pounds," he said, "you better start trying to press leaders who are unwilling to help." He also preached the virtues of private enterprise to his Third World...