Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voting against the windfall-profits tax and proposing a $10 per bbl. fee on imported oil that would "add at least a full percentage point" to the inflation rate) and of pleasing "the hospital lobby" (by helping to kill a 1979 hospital cost-containment bill). Hart, on a Southern swing, blasted back that his oil-tax ideas were intended to reduce U.S. dependence on imports and "avoid the unnecessary loss of American lives in the Persian Gulf " since fighting might be required to keep the imports flowing. Said Hart: "Apparently, Mr. Mondale's position is that he wants to continue...
...Center in Florida enter a more or less equatorial orbit and fly over only part of the earth's surface. Spacecraft sent from Vandenberg into polar orbit will slice across the earth's twirling path and pass over a slightly different strip of the globe on each swing. Satellites placed in polar orbit have the capability of photographing any section of the earth. This gives them an intelligence-gathering potential significantly greater than the Kennedy-launched space vehicles...
...duplicates of clothes they already own but cannot find. One of the most popular layouts was designed by New Yorker Anita Bayer. Lyricist Carole Bayer Sager, her daughter, and husband Composer Burt Bacharach all have one in their Beverly Hills home. Sager calls it "functional and economical." The hangers swing back and forth, allowing the Bacharachs to view their entire wardrobes. Closet keeping becomes a science with Dani Needham, wife of Film Director Hal Needham. On the road more often than not, she carries a little book that lists every item in her closet by number. She explains...
Even in a good year, a swing of six seats is a lot-especially if they come from a party that far outdistances the other in terms of money and organization...
...with such rigor: they know they can force their citizens to wear ill-fitting shoes but they cannot afford to fall far behind the West's steady technological innovation. In some cases, designers have tried to keep up with Western models. The MiG-23, for example, has the "swing-wing" look of the U.S. F-111. The need to adapt foreign ideas and keep up technologically with foreign mili tary equipment has introduced a capitalist-like competitiveness to military production that is woefully lacking in the domestic economy, where shoddy goods do not face the test of the marketplace...