Word: shifter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...abortion debate is a shape-shifter, its contours twisted by politics, culture, timing and the very language pollsters use when they ask people how they feel. So when the folks at Gallup announced that, for the first time, more Americans are pro-life than pro-choice, there were all kinds of ways to misunderstand what that means...
...agenda and not as an afterthought, as most U.S. Presidents approach it - could turn out to be a relatively easy way to prime the pump for better relations with the rest of the world. "Compared with the challenges he faces elsewhere, Latin America's are more manageable," says Michael Shifter, vice president of the InterAmerican Dialogue in Washington. "Strengthening alliances and partnerships in this hemisphere affords him the opportunity to enhance the political capital behind his foreign policy generally...
...That might not have been the case a generation or even a decade ago, when Latin America was still known for its economic and political isolation. But today the region "is much more globalized," Shifter notes. "Countries like Brazil, Venezuela and Mexico are more connected internationally." China's trade with Latin America has increased tenfold this decade; meanwhile, countries such as India, Iran and Russia have discovered that other nations apart from the U.S. and Cuba actually exist in this hemisphere...
...game has changed now that the major hostages are free. Says Michael Shifter, vice president of the InterAmerican Dialogue in Washington: "This removes the only real bargaining chip the FARC had left in its dealings with the government. It's going to be very hard now to talk of the FARC as a national guerrilla movement - it's going to fracture and fragment even more, and the important thing for the Uribe government to do now is offer them more incentives to incorporate themselves into civilian society...
...phases I’ve gone through. Like Ben Affleck when he was briefly engaged to Jennifer Lopez, and only wore the most luxurious V-neck cashmere sweaters, only to toss them for a pair of track pants and Jennifer Garner, I was a style chameleon, a true shape-shifter.I remember reading an article in GQ last summer about how in each celebrity relationship, there’s always one partner with the recessive fashion gene. Was that me? And was Harvard my new significant other?In the summer before my senior year of high school, my so-called...