Word: shifting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Harvard freshman Carrie Schroyer needed just one shift yesterday to make her coach look like a genius...
With the Harvard women’s hockey team tied with Brown in the third period at Meehan Arena, coach Katey Stone chose to promote Schroyer from the third line to the first to replace ailing sophomore Nicole Corriero. On her first shift alongside captain Jennifer Botterill and freshman Julie Chu, Schroyer capitalized for her first collegiate goal, the game-winner in a 3-2 Harvard victory...
...multiple spokesmen. First it appeared to bless a 16% raise, then insisted that any increase above 4% would have to come out of "modernization" savings - reforms like joint control centers for police, fire and ambulance; fire trucks with both full-time and part-time employees; and more flexibility in shift work. But that would mean job losses, so the firefighters were furious, questioning whether Blair was trying to "pull a Maggie" - prove Thatcher-like toughness to win votes. Blair's goal isn't so much union-busting as long-term political survival. Last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon...
While city officials are focused on maintaining the same level of city services, he says they are hesitant to shift the burden onto the taxpayers...
Zoellick is wrong to call for more stringent patent protections, but simply loosening or removing patent restrictions is at best a short-term solution. Solving the health crisis in developing countries in the long run will require a radical shift in the role of government in medical research...