Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...position to say that there is a major shift in trends in cocaine coming into the country," said DEA spokesperson Frank Shults...
...radical shift of policy, Harvard Real Estate (HRE) has agreed to lease affiliated housing to gay, lesbian and straight couples on an equal basis with married couples...
...making Bonn his first capital of call since the formation of Poland's democratically elected government, Walesa was drawing attention to a dramatic geopolitical shift: Western Europe is now the brightest beacon for East bloc countries as they emerge blinking from the long shadow of Soviet suzerainty. Walesa's mission also underscored a larger truth. In ways large and small, Western Europe is becoming a player in its own right on the world stage, increasingly less reliant on the U.S. and less cowed by the Soviet Union at the same time as it evolves into a more unified community. Never...
...forest to clear new land. The farming and burning thus become a perpetual cycle of depredation. Thousands of pioneers give up on farming altogether and migrate to the Amazon's new cities to find work. For many the net effect of the attempt to colonize Rondonia has been a shift from urban slums to Amazonian slums. Says Donald Sawyer, a demographer from the University of Minas Gerais: "The word is out that living on a 125-acre plot in the jungle is not that good...
...1980s, it was said, were coming to a close with a bang. A host of high-level staffing changes, ambitious blueprints for the next decade, resurgent student activism--all the components of a dramatic shift were there...