Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britons prepared to go to the polls for this week's general election, Tory Leader Ted Heath clearly needed to pull out all the stops. Nor was his claim without a shred of support. Britain's major opinion polls did, in fact, register a slight shift to the Conservatives, though hardly enough to slice significantly into the Labor Party's huge lead...
...acknowledges that light from the quasars shows a substantially greater red shift than light from the galaxies that he thinks gave them birth. But he is not bothered by the problem; unlike most astronomers he does not believe that the red shift is caused by the speed with which quasars are receding from the earth-a speed that would indicate they are billions of light-years away. Instead, says Arp, the red shift could be caused by an immense quasar gravitational field, by the high velocity of material falling toward the center of quasars that are suffering catastrophic collapse...
...impressed by Arp's statistics. But many are equally impressed by his failure to account for the energy needed to expel quasars and radio galaxies from his collection of "peculiar galaxies." And most point out that he has offered only informed guesses, no scientific evidence that the red shift of quasar light is caused by anything other than their speed of recession. "If Arp is right," says one astronomer, "we have to abandon most of our work of the past 30 years, drop the general theory of relativity and go back to our drawing boards"-something...
...postwar shift in U.S. grocery shopping from small corner stores to giant supermarkets, no chain grew more aggressively than Chicago-based National Tea Co. From its position as a middle-sized Midwestern chain in the 1940s, National spread south as far as New Orleans and west to Denver, absorbed 22 smaller chains with 485 stores in 16 states. The acquisitions helped double sales, made National stores the fifth largest U.S. grocery chain, with $1.2 billion sales last year from 941 stores. Last week, after a marathon investigation, the Federal Trade Commission voted 4-1 that National, between...
FIRST BASE: A problem spot. Sophomores Bob Welz and Jim Cox are competing for the job, but if neither measures up, O'Donell might shift back into his old position. Welz, if he develops, seems the best bet to be the first baseman by the middle of the season...