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Goldin offers three possible explanations for her findings: peer pressure among professional women to keep their names may have lessened, surname keeping is no longer seen as a symbol of support for women's equality, and the change may reflect a general shift toward more conservative social values...
That a showdown was not more easily avoided reflects a generational shift under way in the Senate, and the fact that the once insular institution has become more reflective of the polarized political landscape around it. Moderates, of either party, are few. Traditionalists like Warner have increasingly been supplanted by a younger generation of Republican Senators, most of whom have arrived there by way of the more autocratic House, where on most questions it doesn't make any difference to the outcome whether the Democrats even show up to vote. In the 2004 election, six of the seven Republican freshmen...
Administrators focused on a shift in students’ attitudes toward evaluations. They further emphasized that it was important to have a high response rate to prove that the online evaluations were effective...
...gets advice from a friend in Iraq who stresses the need to be flexible--he was trained in field artillery but found himself immediately doing convoy operations in humvees. The mission is changing, he warned Pae; get ready to change with it. Pae has noticed a shift in tone, through the tips on which books to save for reuse in officer basic training and in the half-hearted jokes about Iraq's being better than West Point. His friend seems less like the goofy cadet Pae remembers and more like a sober officer steeling himself for the times ahead...
...Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance who attended yesterday’s celebration, called a ban in Massachusetts “a very real chance.” But “the threat has lessened since last year,” Thoreson added, referring to the shift in legislative leadership toward same-sex marriage supporters...