Word: shifted
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...Gradual Shift. The opportunity for the Republicans envisaged by Dan Evans is based on more than the Democrats' problems. There is a pitch of political questioning in the land that goes beyond anything felt since the Depression. People challenge the system. Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd Jr., for one, last week declared that conventions are a "political carnival that should be abolished." More seriously, many ask whether the present ramshackle setup, from confused nominating procedures all the way up to the archaic Electoral College, can really be relied on to represent the majority will. Of more immediate interest...
Nowadays the radicals of the left as well as the right reflexively condemn the Federal Government for its size, remoteness and unresponsiveness. Between the extremes, there has been a gradual shift toward the view that while a strong central government alone can oversee such programs as space, defense and interstate highways, local problems can be more responsively and responsibly handled by cities or counties or states. Most liberals still feel that a strong Federal Government is essential when it comes to world issues, as well as education, jobs and housing, and doubt that local governments can be trusted to ensure...
Nelson Rockefeller has proposed a plan for peace in Viet Nam that calls for a pullback by North Vietnamese forces toward the Demilitarized Zone, Cambodia and Laos, coupled with a withdrawal by U.S. forces from such remote areas as the Central Highlands and a shift into heavily populated areas. A peace-keeping force, "Asian, if possible," would then be positioned between the two forces as a "security buffer," to be followed by the gradual withdrawal from Viet Nam of all foreign forces. Rockefeller's plan then calls for free elections, the results of which he would presumably accept even...
...past few weeks. They still believe, however, that he will get at least 700 on the first ballot, 33 more than needed for nomination. North Carolina, once counted as solid for Nixon, went soft, may go for a favorite son. In the Midwest, there were signs of a slight shift toward Nelson Rockefeller. In the South, Ronald Reagan was having a visible effect...
More liberal use of the federal discount window, even at the rate of more than $2 billion a week desired by the Mitchell study, will mean a shift in the way bank credit is extended. It will not increase the overall money supply, just de-emphasize the Fed's buying and selling of Government securities to regulate the flow of money, which has not always been fully successful when the chips were down. It took several months during the 1966 credit crunch to improve bank lending by such means alone. "If the proposed revisions had been in effect," says...