Word: shifting
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...forgive me - an iriver clix music player. It all worked together even more smoothly than it had done on my high-powered Dell desktop. My biggest problem was an inability to "right-click" using the MacBook's trackpad. Although there is a way to do it by pushing control-shift-F10, I found it was easier to just add an external USB mouse...
...Still, despite the gloomy shift in the political weather, some certainties held strong: We knew that presidential power would never again run amok—Watergate had inoculated the nation against that, once and for all. And however far to the right the U.S. shifted, after Vietnam we knew we’d finally buried the arrogance of power. Never again would Americans invade a nation halfway around the world in order to bestow democracy at gunpoint. Right...
...reaction to Soviet offers to confer, the U.S. answers with despairing pessimism instead of cautious optimism. When Russia announced her arms cut, Secretary Dulles, a man of few and ill-chosen words, responded that “the obvious explanation” is as a propaganda tactic and a shift of manpower to industry and agriculture.... This kind of narrow pre-judgement of Russia with which the U.S. faces the world can do this country little good. It is perhaps more dangerous than naivete, because it characterizes America as stubborn, dogmatic, and incredulous...
...what should we do about our food cravings? It may help to shift them in healthier directions: to chocolate sorbet from chocolate ice cream, for example. And to the extent that stress does drive our cravings, it can't hurt to practice some techniques to neutralize stress, like progressive relaxation or simple breathing exercises. Depriving yourself often backfires. A better strategy might be to indulge moderately and occasionally, perhaps as a way of rewarding good behavior...
...then moved to Boston, married former Phillips Exeter Academy classmate Eric Wetlaufer, and became a reporter for the Associated Press, an opportunity she calls “eye-opening.” “I had my first management experience when I was made manager of the overnight shift,” she says. “I was 25 years old and was suddenly made the supervisor of a unionized shop of reporters from midnight to 8 a.m. And, I will tell you, that I was completely, utterly unequipped to do that.”She began covering...