Word: shifting
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...solution to the out-of-state tax issue could result in the collapse of the state and local sales taxes and therefore the services they support. The result could be higher property taxes and a federal system of sales tax, and that will mean, according to Leavitt, "a massive shift in power from the local government to Washington...
About 15 investors gather around the table to summarize the week's markets, predict what will happen in the coming days and trade ideas about where to shift their assets...
...incident at Meribah begins with the stark announcement, "Miriam died there and was buried there." The next sentence is, "The community was without water, and they joined against Moses and Aaron." This abrupt shift has fascinated scholars, including Hebrew Union College's Cohen. "His need is mourning," Cohen points out. "And do the people gather to comfort him? No. To complain. The same song and dance." Distraught, Moses strikes. With the blows, "he takes out everything," says Cohen. "He takes it out on the people, maybe on God, because he's lost his sister." And the Lord punishes...
...maybe not. But one thing is certain. The demand for skilled employees--especially technology people--will outstrip the supply for the next hundred years. Managers won't be able to tyrannize their rare and valuable technology experts. The balance of power will continue to shift. In the next generation, engineers will rule the corporate world...
...look forward to that day. We're already seeing the first signs of this power shift. In many companies, engineers wear casual clothes while their managers wear uncomfortable business clothes. By analogy, when you see an organ grinder and his monkey, it's always the monkey who has to wear the uncomfortable red vest and hat. If the monkey had the power, he'd be wearing Dockers. That's all you need to know...