Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hirohito. Like a king granting gifts to supplicants, Yamani declared that "Japan is in the No. 1 position both to help us and to be the recipient of Saudi Arabian oil on a long term basis." Minister of International Trade and Industry Yasuhiro Nakasone, on a recent Middle East swing, closed deals that could give $1.5 billion in Japanese credits to Arab states in exchange for guaranteed oil shipments...
With four liberals backing controls, and four independents probably opposed, independent Vellucci is the swing vote. Vellucci has backed controls in the past, but now says coyly that he faces "a big decision...
...because the nation's meat supply in general has been large ever since early last fall, when ranchers and feed-lot operators rushed to sell animals held off the market during the so-called summer meat freeze. Now that livestock is dwindling, and the cycle has begun to swing toward shortages; Charles Wilson, economic research director for the big Iowa Beef Processors Inc., believes that beef supplies in the next few months may dip by an "almost frightening" 20%. Such cutbacks have already forced up the price of cattle ready for slaughter by 30%, to about...
...that we used to jump off of. The bridge was about 35 feet high, and the only spot of deep water was about two feet square. That was sort of crazy, but after a while it got a little boring so we rigged up a rope that you could swing off of. Then you had to hit the deep water on the way back. If you froze on the rope, you swung back into the side of the bridge...
Other observers believe that the swing back to stronger discipline has already occurred. Child Psychologist Zan-wil Sperber notes that "we are beyond do-good permissiveness," but are in a "very flux-y situation. Some people undoubtedly are going back to the idea of role-authoritarian discipline. That is when you say to a child, 'Why should you listen to me? Because I am your mother, that's why.' " Says Psychiatrist James Anthony: "There's definitely been a return of discipline. And with the emergence of a stronger parent has come 'the model child...