Word: veerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Khaldun, and later, like-minded prophets, did not calculate that the cycles could be broken, that history could simply veer off in another direction. As Journalist-Critic A.J. Liebling noted, Ibn-Khaldun's determinism was refuted by "the vigor of Renaissance thought, the technological advances and the discovery of the New World...
Conventional wisdom now judges politicians by how fractionally they veer from the center: Barry Goldwater and George McGovern stand condemned for their inability or unwillingness to come in from the extreme; Nelson Rockefeller is studied with fascination as he carefully calibrates his evolution away from seeming too liberal for his party. Senator Charles Percy, advised to adopt a similar course, recently objected that "a swing to the right would devastate my credibility." Such maneuvering, such manufacturing of new credentials by politicians in dogged pursuit of the shifting middle, adds to the current cynicism about office seekers. It also adds...
...while. Having been Finance Minister for the past five years, Giscard might be expected to set aside any costly new social programs that would interfere with efforts to control a rate of inflation running upwards of 18% a year. Foreign policy under both men would probably not veer markedly from Gaullist tradition, although Mitterrand might well maintain an even more abrasively independent stance toward the U.S. and NATO...
...long strips crisscrossing the desert veer from a straight line by only a few yards every mile. The accompanying triangles, rectangles and trapezoids are laid out with equal precision. In their midst are drawings of huge spiders, a giant nine-fingered monkey, birds, fish and reptiles, some of them so large they are recognizable only from the air. For decades these ancient patterns, spreading across 30 miles of Peru's desolate Nazca plain, have confounded archaeologists. Why were they so painstakingly etched out of the bleak mesa? Could they have been signals to the gods, or-as the current...
...picking up letters on the 49th floor of Chicago's 110-story Sears Tower-and should do much better. He will probably never bump into anyone or anything, never pause for idle chatter or flirtation, or stop for more than 42 seconds at any one desk -indeed, never veer from any of his appointed rounds. If his fellow Sears employees find this paragon irritatingly inhuman, they can be excused. For the methodical new mailboy is a robot...