Word: shifting
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...course the college offered in government and history and did so well that he was permitted to teach two freshman classes in government. He formed a secret campus political group, the "White Stars," to seize control of campus government from the athlete-dominated "Black Stars," who were plotting to shift student funds away from dramatics and speech, devote them entirely to sports. He put up his friend, Wilgard Deason, for student president. "On the night before the election, we caucused and decided we were 20 votes short," says Deason. "The rest of us went to bed, but Lyndon went...
Lyndon Johnson's shift to politics was prompted in part by the advice of College President Evans, who saw Johnson's possibilities as limitless if he were properly pushed by stiff competition. "A teacher is a law unto himself in the classroom," he told Johnson. "His views aren't challenged very much-you don't have to develop to your full potential." That advice proved just as beneficial to U.S. education as it was to L.B.J. For Johnson still insists: "The basis of our whole future as a nation and a civilized society depends...
...course, there has been no complete shift. The threat of filibuster hanging over the voting rights bill has forced the administration to rely on Dirksen and such conservative influences of his as defeat of the poll tax amendment. And conservatives will still be able to use the devices they have used in the past, although, hopefully, greater liberal majorities and a more efficient liberal machine--partially DSG organized--will at least equalize the previously disproportionate amount of parliamentarian talent which conservatives...
...farmers have been permitted to add to their private plots, have had their income taxes reduced, their prices raised as well. Most important of all-if Moscow follows through-is a new five-year plan doubling the amount of investment in agriculture, which at $9 billion represents a massive shift in resource allocation to what has always been the stepchild of the Soviet economy...
Those words of Lord Kelvin, the famous British physicist, are carved in stone above the entrance to the Detroit headquarters of American Motors Corp. American was certain that it had thought of a better way when it led the massive consumer shift to compact, economy cars in the late 1950s. It is less certain today. For the past two years, affluent consumers have been moving up to larger, more luxurious cars, and American's sales and profits have been steadily declining. Last week, after Detroit's Big Three had all reported record earnings in the first quarter...