Word: shift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from an emergency July 4 meeting with President Clinton. In Washington, Nawaz had promised to withdraw Pakistani-backed infiltrators from Indian territory after Washington had earlier threatened to cut off financial aid to the impoverished country. "Pakistan was clearly at fault here, but there may also be a significant shift under way in U.S. strategic thinking," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Pakistan was a key U.S. ally in the Cold War, but there?s a growing fear that it?s out of control. And in the long run, India?s size and technological abilities make it a far more...
...when they have more fully embraced peer culture," says Jean Bailey, coordinator of child and adolescent mental-health services at Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Personal values about religion, sex and obeying authority are shaped primarily shaped by parents right up until the teenage years, when things suddenly shift. While kids may be exposed to sex in the media, "there's a lot of anxiety about what the whole deal of sexual behavior is," says child psychologist Anthony Wolf, author of Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? (1991). Wolf...
...turmoil has ended. For the first time in nearly a year, U.S. investors are buying more shares of emerging-markets stock funds than they are selling. But if you're part of that wave and are simply chasing funds with momentum, look out. Trouble lurks. The mo may shift soon. If you're building a permanent long-term emerging-markets position, though, now is a fair time to get started. Just don't overdo it. These stocks should be only 5% to 10% of your portfolio...
...decommissioning of arms ?- is essentially symbolic, but that symbolism cuts to the core of the historic confrontation between loyalists who want the province to remain part of Britain and nationalists who believe they?re fighting an anti-colonial war. If the institutions agreed on last year were designed to shift the conflict from a paramilitary to a political track and foster a basis for coexistence between the republican Catholic and loyalist Protestant communities, then the breakdown over weapons signals the scale of that challenge. All that, of course, is in the long term. Loyalist groups have announced they will defy...
...last line of defense against the barbarians is filing into the briefing room at the Maryvale Precinct, home to 229 sworn officers. Marc Atkinson's old squad is just beginning its 3:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. shift. Sergeant Pete Fenton tells them about a fresh homicide and about a tree that will be planted in Marc's honor out front. A chalkboard advisory warns against dining at a certain fast-food joint because a cook with a grudge, just out of jail, is bound to add special ingredients to any cop's dinner...