Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly, what the Europeans heard from Connally in London seemed to them too arrogant to be believed. Connally's one specific, and supposedly nonnegotiable, demand was that the other nations help the U.S. achieve a $13 billion-a-year swing in its trade balance, from a heavy deficit to a comfortable surplus. How? Presumably by some combination of upward revaluation of major European currencies and the Japanese yen, the removal of barriers against U.S. goods-which are higher in Japan than in Europe-and the assumption by other nations of more of the cost of maintaining U.S. military forces...
This vote, added to the votes of the three other losing candidates--Councilman Thomas I. Atkins, Councilman John L. Saltonstall Jr. and Socialist Workers Party candidate John E. Powers Jr.--should provide enough votes to swing the November election for the Mayor...
This vote, added to the votes of the three other losing candidates--Councilman Thomas I. Atkins, Councilman John L. Saltonstall Jr. and Socialist Workers Party candidate John E. Powers Jr.--should provide enough votes to swing the November election for the Mayor...
...first swing-wing supersonic strategic bomber ever produced, Backfire is believed to have been designed by Andrei N. Tupolev, 82, who also developed the Soviet Union's TU-144 supersonic transport. Aerodynamicists believe that the 131-ft.-long, 250,000-lb. Backfire is made of stainless steel with titanium to resist the heat stress of supersonic flight, and has an airframe skin bonding (instead of riveting). The plane's wings are in a forward position for long-range cruising and are jackknifed back about 40° for speeds of Mach 2.1 (about 1,400 m.p.h...
...that failure allowed Skinner to swing his attention back to one of the pet interests of his youth: animal behavior. As a boy, he had had toads and chipmunks. He also had a vivid memory of watching a troupe of trained pigeons at a county fair play at putting out a fire. Besides, he had read and been excited by some Bertrand Russell articles in the old Dial magazine about Johns Hopkins Psychologist John B. Watson, father of behaviorism. It was with Watson, in 1913, that psychology really emerged from its origins in philosophy to become a full-fledged scientific...