So which way will the pendulum swing this fall for gold and gold stocks?
"We are part of the pendulum swing in America to artisan foods and drinks, " echoes Stranahan's Jess Graber.
"I've seen the pendulum swing back and forth, and I hope that the successful mission will push it back in the direction of Mars exploration, " Hubbard said.
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Soon after, the fiscal pendulum will swing fiercely, as baby boomers retire and entitlement spending soars.
Does this mean the pendulum will swing back to the days of the glassed-in mainframe computing center?
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With Fed Funds rates at 0.25%, or almost zero, the pendulum must swing back in the other direction.
It took a half-century for the pendulum to swing fully in this direction.
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So the pendulum may swing back towards someone in the mould of Jacques Delors, the president from 1985 to 1994.
But he didn't say which way he wanted the pendulum to swing.
It's good to have the tension, Obama was saying, and at different times in U.S. history, the pendulum would swing a little bit this way or a little bit that way.
But Mr Mudd also argues that the information obtained this way was of critical value: does that mean if there was another horrific attack, the times would again be hot and heavy, and the pendulum would swing back?
Rep. MUSGRAVE: I'm confident if we are hypocritical, if we say we're for small government, and we don't act like that, then we're going to have consequences, but I'm also confident if we will be true to our principles, that the pendulum will swing back.
If the economy continues to falter because we are not raising revenues and if we begin to see more and more homeless and hear more stories of the elderly dying for lack of medical care and nourishment, the pendulum hopefully will swing back .
Unfortunately, liberal defenders of unemployment benefits swing the pendulum too far in the other direction.
Bernanke has tried to swing the pendulum the other direction, and usually offers fairly direct clues about future actions.
But very likely, thanks to the Tea Party, and a new Constitutional spirit, the pendulum is about to swing back.
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But now the pendulum is starting to swing in the other direction.
Instead, his firing on Friday morning signals perhaps an opportune moment to swing the pendulum in a more equitable and ethical direction at major universities.
Analysts said winning Facebook would have helped swing the pendulum in the Big Board operator's favor in terms of recruiting future listings and potential transfers.
Still, the troubles could swing the pendulum some way back in 2002, when the Republicans will be defending 13 governorships, compared with the Democrats' seven.
The fundamental pendulum is beginning to swing towards being overvalued when you consider that only five sectors are undervalued and each of these by less than 2%.
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He must either drive Dodd-Frank to its full implementation or openly acknowledge that the pendulum has begun to swing away from over-regulation and towards a more balanced approach.
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But now, Leinberger told CNN, it appears the pendulum is beginning to swing back in favor of the type of walkable community that existed long before the advent of the once fashionable suburbs in the 1940s.
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Mr Netanyahu, with an eye to the middle-of-the-road voter, could conceivably swing the pendulum leftwards again in the months ahead, perhaps carrying out the next phase of withdrawal prescribed by Wye and softening his refusal to free more political prisoners.
That's partly because capital has taken such a large share of profits for so many years that the pendulum is bound to swing back and partly because, having just given trillions of dollars to the banks, politicians will be under pressure to put vast amounts of money into saving jobs.
The collaboration meme has had what the English call a good innings but the pendulum should surely start to swing back the other way.
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The concept had been deemed too hard to control: the rover would swing like a pendulum as it flew, and its radar was too inaccurate to find safe anchorage.
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