Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both men would like to shift as much power-and tax money-as possible from Washington back to the states and localities. The difference is that Rea gan thinks that decentralization is altogether more feasible than does Rocky, who has had nine years as Governor in which to learn. During his tenure, Rockefeller has increased aid to secondary and elementary schools by 170%, tripled the size of the state university system, inaugurated a $1 billion program to end water pollution, pushed through a $1.50 minimum wage, and proposed a $2.5 billion program to modernize mass transportation. Though...
...gradual shift has taken place in the support that a majority of U.S. newspapers had been giving President Johnson's policies in Viet...
...quick-shift, sudden-death world of television, only two things are constant: commercials and Ed Sullivan...
...they signify a shift in the balance...
...progress, but it is, in any case, where both paths have led. The travelers now begin to exude a faint odor of despair: photographers still have no masterpieces to hang with the great paintings, and the parapsychologists have an equivalent problem. They have failed to work a great shift in popular thought, a psychological counterpart to the Darwinian impact, precisely because they are relying on a statistical preponderance of evidence rather than a single staggering tour de force demonstration to make their case. Out and out radicule and rejection breed action, but hesitating half-acceptance makes only for frustration...