Word: shifting
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Above all, abortion activists predict that the struggle could lead to a seismic shift in American politics, becoming a constant factor in nearly every election and threatening to fracture both parties. Like civil rights and the Viet Nam War in the 1960s, abortion could be the great preoccupation of the 1990s. "It will be a battle for years and years and years," says Samuel Lee, executive director of Missouri Citizens for Life, which helped write the law at issue in the Webster case. "I don't think it's ever going to go away...
...abortion becomes a sufficiently compelling issue, would unhappy pro- choicers defect from the G.O.P. in sufficient numbers to tilt national elections? Stuart Rothenberg, director of the political division of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, says that if Democrats can shift the image of their party toward the center on economic and defense matters and then add the abortion issue, "they have the possibility of fracturing the Republican coalition." Says Democratic National Committee spokesman Mike McCurry: "We're thinking ahead. Are we in a position where we can plan ahead? I don't think...
Some things have also changed for the worse. Several alumni expressed concern about the shrinking number of Harvard students from who come from lower-income Black families and attributed alterations in the Harvard Black community to this shift...
...dates scheduled by Mommy's secretary. Their social lives out of nursery school may rival those of their parents in complexity. Meanwhile, the parents must work even harder to pay for it all. When Arlie Hochschild studied working couples in the San Francisco area for a forthcoming book, Second Shift, she found that "a lot of people talked about sleep. They talked about sleep the way a hungry person talks about food...
...federal trial in Chicago. Norby Walters, 58, and Lloyd Bloom, 29, New York City-based agents for professional athletes, were charged with reaching into college ranks and illegally plying hot prospects with cash, cars and other perks for signing premature, postdated contracts. But the agents' lawyers maneuvered strenuously to shift the indictment's focus. Their target: the system of big-time college athletics that, with box-office and TV profits at stake, often looks the other way when stars get improper favors and that condones specious academic regimens to maintain those stars' eligibility...