At the bottom, hanging like a pendulum, is a picture of Bal Thackeray: a serene, orange-robed guru, grinning.

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Investor sentiment swings back and forth between greed and fear like a pendulum.

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Zamperla's Giant Discovery reaches a speed of 110kph (70mph), rotating its riders and swinging like a pendulum to suspend them upside down 45 metres above the ground.

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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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After voting ended Monday--with a healthy turnout of about 84%--projections and returns swung like a pendulum between the two sides, and without the vote from abroad, the election's outcome was still far from clear.

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The inflation driven exhilaration proves fleeting as the pendulum swings back like a wrecking ball.

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Skeleton clocks display the interior mechanisms of the timepiece, while mystery clocks, like the 1890 enamel and glass French timepiece showing a fetching young lady holding a pendulum clock, hide their mechanisms, thus presenting a mystery as to what makes them tick.

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