Word: shifted
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...compelling orator, Bhutto is the scion of a powerful Pakistani family, and a graduate of both Berkeley and Oxford. He joined Ayub's first Cabinet at 30. As Foreign Minister from 1963 to 1966, Bhutto took a belligerent line with India, and engineered Pakistan's "Red shift" toward China and away from the U.S. He was the most popular man in the Cabinet by 1966, when Ayub sacked him in order to bring Pakistan back toward the middle of the road. Last year Bhutto formed his own Pakistan People's Party, with the slogan "Islam, Socialism, Democracy...
President Nixon will face a Senate that retains its Democratic majority and liberal bent, though both in membership and temperament it has undergone a slight shift to the right. The Republicans gained a net of at least four seats, reducing the Democrats' edge from 63-37 to 59-41?or perhaps even 58-42. The G.O.P. picked up seats in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Maryland, Arizona and Oklahoma, and was close to another in Oregon. The Democrats toppled Republicans in California and Iowa. The new Senate will be a little more conservative in dealing with federal spending and controls, civil...
...Dunop agree is whether meetings of the whole Faculty would still be administratively workable. "At some point in time we have to cease to be self-governing," Wilcox says, "the town meetings have to end and we have to switch to some kind of Faculty senate." That is a shift, though, that the Faculty will probably be very reluctant to make...
...indelicate to talk about a Faculty "balance of power" which might shift with the addition of many new young members. If such a thing exists, no one will say it does. "This body is devoid of lobbying, as far as I know, which is very unusual for legislative bodies." Dunlop adds that a new flock of inexperienced members might force the Faculty to be less informal in introducing and debating resolutions and that he would prefer to see young Faculty members brought into the decision-making process at the departmental level (as the report suggests...
Harvard's forward line will also be re-adjusted. Munro plans to shift Jaime Vargas, who has been slowed down by a muscle pull, to center forward. Center forward Pete Bogovich will move to inside right and Solomon Gomez will move to inside left...