Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recently the worst of times, it now seemed almost the best of times to be a Democrat for the 2,000 delegates who gathered last week in Kansas City for the first mid-term convention of its kind ever held by a U.S. political party. The swing had been manic: from corrosive division and humiliating defeat in 1972 to last month's sweeping triumph in the off-year elections and the reasonable prospect of wresting the White House from Gerald Ford in 1976. And though some of the old intramural conflicts still struck sparks, the downs and ups seemed...
...second plan would require construction of a new tunnel from Putnam Square under Mt. Auburn St. through Brattle Square, where a new entrance would be placed. The tunnel would then swing up at Hilliard St. through the Radcliffe Yard to Chauncy...
...advises Ford: "Paradoxical as it may seem, the cause of longer-run price stability makes some easing of policies urgent now." McCracken believes that "if we do not get some easing now, the recession will be unnecessarily deep, and we would court the risk of a belated, massive swing to ease later that would set us off on another inflationary spiral by 1976 or 1977." McCracken still wants "a stern budget line," but he also wants a substantial easing of monetary policy...
Vellucci's sponsoring of the resolution was unexpected. Vellucci was the swing vote in the Council's five-to-four decision last February to retain rent control...
...told reporters last week that the FEA report bolstered the arguments-which he and a small group of experts are preparing for the President's consideration-that an increased federal gasoline tax should be a part of the nation's energy policy. But Ford declared during a swing through the Southwest: "I don't know how many tunes I have to say we are not considering an additional gas tax." A spokesman for Morton quickly announced that the Secretary would not "push" the idea any longer, since Ford was so "adamant...