Word: pendulum
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...seeking through tough talk to offset what he considers a damaging U.S. policy failure. (The Soviets promptly stepped up their personal attacks on him.) He defended detente and criticized Congress for interfering too much in the Administration's conduct of foreign policy. "It was clear the pendulum swung too far [toward the Administration] in the 1960s," he said. "It's equally clear it is now swinging too far the other way." While Congress can set basic policy guidelines, he feels it lacks the means for "executing a coherent, consistent, comprehensive policy." Kissinger could not resist taking another...
...Embree (6 ft. 10 in.), John Mc-Cullock (6 ft. 7 in.) and Dan Sullivan (6 ft. 6 in.) leaped to a sweep in that event, the pendulum and the meet swung toward the side of the Crimson...
...sport in some ways looks like a Cinderella industry heading toward midnight. Of the 23 teams in the American Basketball Association and World Hockey Association, only one is in the black. "There's no question about it," says Attorney Bob Woolf, who has negotiated hundreds of contracts, "the pendulum is swinging back. We're in a period of contraction...
Says craggy-faced George Ariyoshi: "At some point, the pendulum starts swinging back in the other direction." The economic outlook is hazy. New job openings in some fields traditionally favored by A.J.A.s, such as teaching and the civil service, have grown scarce...
...past few years the seven-member Corporation and the 32-member Board of Overseers have changed slightly in composition, the Corporation taking on two professors and the Overseers several women, blacks and non-business people. So what is new this year is that the pendulum is swinging back in the other direction...