Word: shift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...boon to Ford, which just three months ago was savaged by the greens over the introduction of the giant Excursion utility truck. The Sierra Club dubbed it the Ford Valdez, after the ill-fated oil tanker. The company's new attitude toward the environment reflects a slow shift throughout the industry toward greener machines. Yet the challenge remains: how to balance consumers' craving for size and speed with the need for clean air. At least this time, Ford did both...
...addition, they measured the stars' "red shift," which indicate the speed at which the stars are receding. Together, the speed and velocity measurements helped the researchers to target the Hubble constant...
...would add that we parents can help our kids and their coaches by shouting from the sidelines only to applaud and encourage them--instead of, say, demanding a shift in the outfield. We should thank the umpires after games and teach our kids that the bad calls and good calls even out--in sports as in life. Similarly, we should help them see that, in sports as in life, they will sometimes play well and lose, or play poorly and win. So the only sensible goals are to have fun and improve their skills...
...content than its provenance. "Boutros-Ghali was so deeply flawed as a secretary general that his own staff despised him," says Dowell. "His imperiousness had alienated them to the point that they were constantly leaking damaging information to the media." Boutros-Ghali's attack, though, points to a shift in the Clinton administration away from its initial emphasis on building consensus in multilateral forums such as the U.N. "Instead of trying to win international support for U.S. policy, Washington began to simply announce it on a take-it-or-leave-it basis," says Dowell. "That has also...
...PermanentlyFortune Investor DataThe overall outcome? Don't sweat it, folks. "Once they digest this news, the markets will go right back up," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "What they'll realize is that only once in recent memory did the Fed actually raise rates following a bias shift in that direction." Of course, this walk-on-water economy of ours hasn't given Greenspan cause to raise rates in quite a while either; the fear is that that could change. Baumohl says Greenspan, as always, will wait and see. "Those price numbers were just the whiff of inflation...