Word: shifting
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...investigation issued its first criminal charge last week and began to shift to a second set of mutual fund trades--those by Millennium Partners, a $4 billion hedge fund run by storied Wall Street investor Israel Englander. And Spitzer wasn't the only cop on the Wall Street beat. The NASD, a securities-industry regulator, had settled a separate case with Morgan Stanley, which it charged with offering brokers improper incentives to push in-house funds that might not be best for its clients...
...predictable in their dedication to sportswear, leaving shock tactics to their European colleagues. Along with predictability comes safety, a belief that certain designers--the triumvirate of Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan--are fashion's bedrock. But all of a sudden there was a tectonic shift, as if Klein's departure left everything else on shifting sand...
Aurora Mebwar, who works in Leverett’s dining hall, says she appreciates that she can work the 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. shift...
...After allowing students to responsibly build fires for hundreds of years, somebody at University Hall insisted that we had been wrong the whole time, and that fiery death was just around the corner. So instead of increasing safety precautions through new rules, they instituted a radical and wholly unnecessary shift in policy...
...move that has stirred surprisingly little Faculty unrest, University President Lawrence H. Summers has revamped the historically autonomous tenure process at Harvard Law School (HLS). Unless transparency is made a priority, a potentially positive change could be little more than a power shift...