Word: swinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer-school class in Farragut, Tenn. "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury," he read from a crib sheet, "signifying nothing." It was all part of Ronald Reagan's continuing crusade for stricter standards in the nation's schools, on a swing through Tennessee and New Mexico last week. In turn, his prospective Democratic rivals for the presidency charged that his speeches were mere sound and fury. "Everywhere he goes he's now a friend of education," scoffed Walter Mondale, who claimed Reagan had waited 20 years to support public education...
...dozen. According to Charlie Lau, distinguished batting theorist of the White Sox, Kittle has yet to hit a home run that is merely a home run. "They're all emphatically home runs," Lau says emphatically. "Ron is strong, but he doesn't 'muscle' the swing. It's rhythmic, natural. In his mind, I think he's just so sure he can hit, the pitchers can strike him out, make him look foolish, and there's still that trace of a smile. He knows he's going to get them." Tony LaRussa...
Like any other person in public life, Volcker has his detractors. He has been faulted for going along with Carter's disastrous fling with credit controls in early 1980 and for sometimes permitting the money supply to swing wildly. Asserts Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, who maintains that steady and predictable money growth is the key to economic health: "There has been more volatility in the money supply in the past three years than in any previous three-year period...
...sudden surge in medical officials' salaries, says director of Personnel Daniel D. Cantor, is reflective of the market. These things swing back and forth like a pendulum "If Med School administrators earned any less. Cantor says, "they'd be lower than most of the professionals reporting to them and would be tempted to leave Harvard for private practice...
...favor of socially responsible shareholder resolutions. On the other side of many shareholder resolutions and supporting a more moderate South African policy stood the remaining three faculty members and one of the alumni. The last alumnus, who was the most recently appointed member of the Committee, provided a swing vote...