Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CONVENTIONAL wisdom has been known to be wrong, and in this case, the conventional wisdom on the council is deeply flawed. The belief that the council is going to shift its attention from politics to student services assumes what is simply not true: that there is a clear distinction between political issues and service issues...
...financiers. While they may be savvy about other types of business, they don't have that retail knowledge." The new owners may not have such problems. Among the most probable bidders are Little Rock's Dillard and St. Louis' May stores. In this industry, at least, ownership may shift back to U.S. hands...
That policy shift marked the first change in the unprecedented 1977 "nonmerger merger" agreement between the two schools. Previously, the joint Harvard-Radcliffe Fund was the main fundraising vehicle for graduates--both male and female--who received degrees after...
...those who keep black fish in aquariums in order to absorb "bad rays," or those who believe their country's former greatness was attributable to a national qi (vital energy) that even now is moving inexorably from the West to Japan on its way back to China, a shift that will once again confirm the Middle Kingdom as the center of the world. All these people know that the man is right because they know that the logic behind marrying dead people, to ensure them a peaceful afterlife, is dead wrong. The real if equally fanciful reason is that...
Villalobos also demonstrated a greater flexibility. In what appeared to be a fundamental shift of philosophy, the comandante said that given the changes in the international climate, the time for violent struggle has passed. "We can't at this time aspire to an armed revolution that the Soviet Union will subsidize," he said. He suggested that the F.M.L.N. would now be willing to embrace a "multiparty system." Asked if he could coexist with the right, Villalobos responded, "Of course," but went on to say of ARENA, "After you reaffirm your legitimacy in an electoral contest in which we all participate...