Word: shifting
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...Tech Vice Provost David Goodstein said that a shift of funding priorities for projects in scientific institutions is hoped for. "The prevailing feeling here is a hope that the big spending in large-scale research and development will be shifted from the military to NASA and space research...
...political ideas. Where his own personal power is concerned, he is interested not in sharing but in consolidation. Now that he has decided the party is part of the problem and cannot be part of the solution to the country's economic ills, it makes sense for him to shift his authority toward the new presidency. If Gorbachev is going to preside over the diminishment and perhaps the eventual dismantlement of the party, it stands to reason he would want to give up the general secretaryship and move all his books, files and telephones into his other office at Supreme...
When Stalin died in 1953, he was far gone in paranoia, convinced that a cabal of Jewish doctors was trying to poison him. Only after shooting Stalin's reptilian police chief, Lavrenty Beria, did the Kremlin survivors, notably the new Communist Party Secretary, Nikita Khrushchev, try to shift to a new policy known as "the thaw." In a four-hour speech before the 20th Party Congress, supposedly secret but widely leaked, Khrushchev described to the faithful for the first time the full range of Stalin's crimes. ("But where were you during all those years?" one listener asked Khrushchev, according...
...platform affirms that farmers should have the right to lease land (with rights of inheritance) through local government councils, or soviets. This clause represents a significant shift away from the current practice of land leasing through collective and state farms, and is expected to encourage more small-scale farming. As Gorbachev stated, "All obstacles in the way of the farmer should be removed. He should be given a free hand...
...more fraught with risk than Gorbachev's bold gambit to devolve power from the party to the local soviets. After seven decades of Communist domination, regional party organizations have become so intertwined with the running of local economies that in some collective farms there would be no second shift to milk the cows unless the local party boss went door to door rounding up workers. Would a democratically elected mayor on a newly reformed town council be ready to take on the job? Vyacheslav Shostakovsky, rector of Moscow's Higher Party School for Communists, has his doubts. "The party...