Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amendments offered by the Coop shift virtually all decision-making power from the stockholders, who are self-appointed to the directors, who would more than ever represent the membership. The directors instead of the "trustee" stockholders would set the rebate rate, for example. While continuing to hold the 60.000 shares of Coop stock in trust, the stockholders will become no more than a nominating board for the directors...
...NATIONAL election, coming next Sunday, might bring a change in the nature of the ruling coalition. A slight shift in votes from the CDU to the SPD might replace Chancellor Keisinger with SPD leader Willy Brandt, since the two parties are now almost evenly balanced in the Bundestag...
Combat inevitably sharpens both emotions and rhetoric. It is an incendiary combination to be young, black, armed, 10,000 miles from home and in persistent danger of death in "a white man's war." When the men return to "the world," their perspective may shift, and doubtless many black soldiers will become so busy with their own affairs that their militance will fade somewhat. Even in Viet Nam, 53% of the black men interviewed said that they would not join a militant group such as the Black Panthers when they return to the U.S. Says Major Wardell Smith...
...conference provided fresh evidence of a radical shift in medical emphasis from treatment of adult ills to the health of the child, the infant and even the embryo. But medical researchers do not intend to stop even there. They are also considering the health of the mother at the time of conception, the health of both parents before conception, and even the health of the mother's mother at the time she conceived...
...while a helicopter tried to dry out the soggy grass-Laver and Roche gingerly tested each other. They broke each other's serves an astonishing seven times. After the ninth game Rod calmly paused to switch to spiked shoes, fully aware that adjustment to the shift would probably cost him the set. It did. But in the second set Laver settled into a flawless groove. He broke Roche's spirit by consistently parrying his powerful serve, glided swiftly over the court to fire winner after winner past an opponent whose concentration collapsed into a desperate scramble. In just...