Word: swung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...views of child-development experts on day care have also fluctuated, often reflecting the prevailing political winds. They have swung from very negative in the 1950s to positive in the late '70s back toward negative in recent years. At the moment the field is deeply divided, with opposing camps interpreting the same evidence in different ways. At the heart of the debate is a question that could affect the psychological well-being of a generation of children and of their guilt-ridden working mothers: What are the long-term risks of day care...
...century Composer Henry Purcell. All in all, many Britons agreed with Independent Television News' Jon Snow, who declared, "The campaign has become Americanized." Labor put on a strong show by adopting staged events, photo opportunities and other techniques refined by Thatcher four years ago. Last week, for example, Kinnock swung a cricket bat, signed a shovel at a muddy construction site and carried a six-year-old girl on his shoulders. For her part, Thatcher viewed an antique-doll collection, climbed aboard an amusement-park ride and sipped a beer at a Scottish brewery...
...nothing to do with the Pogo parade," Rugo says. "All of a sudden it just erupted." Outside of J. August and Co., policemen honed in on Rugo and told him he was under arrest. He received no response when he asked what the charges were against him. "The police swung furiously, and I swung back," he says, adding that his flying punches landed him in the paddy wagon on his way to jail...
...engaging someone to feel sensations on behalf of him and his wife that properly belong only to him and his wife. What seems so easy mechanically turns out to be an impossibility, yet the sanctioning by contract obfuscates the reality. Instead of a simple deal, he has swung a deal whose complications are infinite, and infinitely surprising; they are not in anyone's control...
...last year recaptured control of Congress because they fielded better candidates, but also because they were more finely tuned to people's thoughts about what the Government ought to be doing. The Democrats were well in control on Capitol Hill by Christmas. With the Administration weakened, the party leaders swung into place the long-deferred Democratic agenda, items thwarted during the Reagan years: education, job training, increased research for AIDS and health care. Says Democratic Hopeful Gephardt: "I don't think people care about Government or no Government. They're willing to use Government if it is part...