Word: swinging
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...rights of others. That point arises when the heckling and protests interfere with the speaker's ability to communicate and the rights of other members of the audience to listen. This is simply another application of the principle that gave rise to the celebrated maxim: "Your freedom to swing your fist stops at the point of my nose." This principle does not deprive anyone of the right to communicate. If persons opposed to a speaker's policies wish to publicize that fact they can do so in various ways that will not interfere with the rights of the speaker...
...party's fortunes, appear to have no real remedy for their problems. The strategy conducted by younger, more conservative Republicans of identifying with the President may not pay off. Much of the Reagan support came from a dislike of Jimmy Carter, not because the state had made a rightward swing. The true test will be in November, when Reagan takes on the Dukakis machine in the state...
...question on each of issues is: How well will they serve to attract crucial swing voters? Each side can fairly well count on its core constituency: for Mondale, minorities, the poor, organized labor; for Reagan, religious fundamentalists, the well-to-do and conservatives of every stripe. The real battle is for the middle, in particular two key groups: the blue-collar middle class and the smaller but influential core of young professionals sometimes called Yuppies...
...Jackson sulked and demanded more respect, and Walter Mondale for the most part remained holed up in his suburban bunker in North Oaks, Minn. This week the Democrats will try to shake off the ennui, as Mondale and Ferraro take off together on a five-city, four-day campaign swing, the first leg in a long and uphill march toward Election...
...customers in product-liability cases. But it also moves to head off suits -and injuries-by telling customers about defects. Says Chief Counsel Philip Knox: "We had recalls long before there was a Product Safety Act." In the 1960s, for example, the company recalled a children's swing set, informing all buyers by certified mail of a weak weld...