Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That hallowed American folk hero, the lean cowboy with six-gun at hip, swinging smoothly into the saddle-somehow he never had to go to school to learn that stuff. Today's cowboy is more likely to shift gears than spur a pony, and the all-round hand who can do something more useful than strum a guitar is getting so scarce that the Federal Government is trying to train up-to-date cowboys in classes...
...certain whey the public is saving less, but economists have lots of theories. Hedge Buying against inflation has sopped up some money. So have the rising cost of living, higher social security and local taxes, and the speed-up in federal income-tax collections. More important, in a basic shift in personal habits, fickle depositors have been bypassing traditional savings institutions and investing funds directly into high-rate, low risk outlets as tax-free bonds, treasury notes and mutual funds. From only 2.5 billion in the final three months of last year, such new invesment shot up to 9 billion...
...Senate Armed Services Committee in voting $168 million to begin work on the Nike-X missile defense system has raised some serious questions about America's defense policy in the nuclear age. Deployment of the Nike-X program, eventually costing between $10 and $20 billion, represents a shift in anti-ICBM policy which could throw the United States and Russia into yet another arms race if carried beyond limited defense...
Looking chronologically, the total view of Matisse's artistic production reveals a progressive shift of emphasis from elaboration to a maximum simplicity. His artwork demonstrates an increasing interest in the instantaneous expression of a whole idea and a decreasing effort to fill in the detail. But attempt to organize Matisse's career into a linear development or to categorize his work into formal periods or genres results in failure. His curiosity creativity moved with such freedom of imagination that the structure of associations was too personal and complex for scholars ever to untangle, best, they can try to understand what...
...pragmatist, not a dogmatist," but was criticized for his disapproval of some left-wing but non-Communist Latin regimes, his rigorous criteria for economic aid and determined promotion of free enterprise in developing countries. Criticism failed to deter him, however, and his resignation indicates neither a shift in Administration Latin policy nor a disagreement...