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    groundswell \ground"swell`\ (ground"sw[e^]l`), n.
    1. A long, deep wave in the sea, sometimes caused by distant
    winds or storms.
    [PJC]

    2. A rising sentiment of support or enthusiasm, especially
    among the general public; as, a groundswell of opinion
    favoring campaign finance reform.
    [PJC]

    1. But earlier heavy issuance of Remic deals that settle in December is creating a groundswell of demand for the securities that back those offerings.
    2. But a last-minute groundswell of opposition, primarily against drilling in the wildlife refuge, and the threat of a filibuster kept the bill from proceeding.
    3. Richard Sandor, who advised Mr. Rosenthal on the product, conceded that there hasn't been a groundswell of demand for the futures contract, and that it may be a hard sell among traditionally conservative insurance companies.
    4. A groundswell of sentiment against reform and a return to Marxist orthodoxy would in turn doom plans for free elections, agreed to by Communists leaders and the political opposition.
    5. On Tuesday night, Ershad bowed to a seven-week groundswell of opposition and said he would step down as the opposition had chosen someone to run the country until new elections.
    6. Alongside the Darby boomlet is a groundswell of support for the kind of commodity-price standard described on these pages by Charles Kadlec on June 17.
    7. Aquino's murder led to a groundswell of opposition to then-President Ferdinand E. Marcos that culminated in a February 1986 popular revolt which deposed Marcos after 20 years in office and swept Mrs. Aquino to power.
    8. Conservative activists are trying to generate grassroots support for John Tower, but Republican Party officials around the nation concede they haven't seen much of a groundswell of support for President Bush's Pentagon nominee.
    9. Dole's Southern spokesman, Clark Reid, claimed "a groundswell of support" following Iowa. "You have to take into account we haven't done any paid media (ads) yet in the South," Reid said.
    10. "I think they are beginning to experience a groundswell of business," he said.
    11. One top DJP official said yesterday that there were a few other possible candidates, but that there was "no groundswell of support yet" for any one of them.
    12. It may be more of a ripple than a groundswell, but public awareness of this branch of design does seem to be growing.
    13. Their action tapped a groundswell of opposition that began after the 1983 assassination of opposition leader Benigno Aquino, and it led to a popular revolt backed by clergy and joined by hundreds of thousands of civilians.
    14. An extraordinary groundswell of public indignation about the continuing army actions, the official cover-up of the Lithuanian shootings and Mr. Gorbachev's role in the affair has started spilling out onto the streets of Moscow.
    15. It did not emerge out of a groundswell of independent glass-making activity but out of a workshop held at the University of Wisconsin in 1962.
    16. To date he has kept a low profile. The rising groundswell about this aloofness will disappear if he can achieve more money for his department on budget day - and give some of it to the arts.
    17. "Legislative history includes a groundswell of support in Congress for women's rights to abortion even three years before the Supreme Court decision" legalizing abortion in 1974, she said.
    18. Robert Bourke, senior vice president of First Chicago Corp. says that while his loan volume is up a bit, "it's no groundswell by any stretch of the imagination." But more and more bankers are starting to see glimmers of hope.
    19. There is no groundswell of public opinion.
    20. Modrow has been battling a groundswell of anti-Communist sentiment in his nation of 16 million, as East Germans lose faith that the economic crisis can be fixed and flee to the West at the rate of about 2,000 a day.
    21. Mr. Hart suggests that one reason there isn't any Republican groundswell at the moment is that Mr. Bush is running against Mr. Dukakis "in personal rather than policy terms.
    22. But, he says, these will be countered by a "groundswell of Christian renewal all over the world" that will reverse smothering, irreligious secularism.
    23. Chamorro's assassination caused a groundswell of support for the Sandinistas.
    24. The agreement provoked a groundswell of protest against the union leadership, especially the CGIL, causing Mr Bruno Trentin, its leader, to offer his resignation.
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