Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...union treasuries and union electoral support, Labor candidates would virtually lose by default. In this dire situation, some backbenchers began wondering aloud in the corridors whether Labor might employ a favorite Conservative Party tactic-that of changing Prime Ministers whenever party popularity plummets. This ploy enables the party to shift the blame for past errors onto the shoulders of the outgoing leader...
...TIME, "On Flying More and Enjoying It Less" [April 18], spotlights increasing, overpowering chaos in air travel. Major problems are created by the need for superairports to serve superjets. Necessarily they must be located at great distances from the megalopolis each serves. And these airports will simply shift confusion from one place to another. Perhaps the answer is containerized people. A gargantuan crane straddles the plane, smoothly lifts the passenger compartment from the plane and deposits it on a monorail flatcar pulled by a power unit. The passengers unbuckle their seat belts and are whisked 150 m.p.h. to the downtown...
...really won the 1968-69 season? Michael Dann, CBS senior vice president for programming, feels that he did. With CBS in second place midseason, Dann decided to shift Hawaii Five-0 from its 8 p.m. Thursday time slot (where it started opposite Flying Nun and the second half of Daniel Boone) to 10 p.m. Wednesday (against the less formidable competition of The Outsider and a movie). As a result, Hawaii Five-0 climbed from a 26% share of the audience to 37%. Without that shift, NBC might have finished in first place...
...indexes that tend to foreshadow the pattern of production, paychecks and prices. In October, the leaders began to level off; for the next five months they zigzagged. During March, to judge by the eight indicators for which the results were in last week, they dropped about 1 %. The apparent shift of the leaders strengthens forecasts of a salutary slowdown in the second half...
...caused French bank notes to sell at a 10% discount abroad, and the price of gold in Paris reached record highs. French reserves fell for the twelfth consecutive week, while German Bundesbank reserves jumped by $400 million. Only the strict French currency controls prevented a much sharper shift out of francs and into marks...