Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton--or, more accurately, the Clinton team--is very clever to shift the American people's attention to scribblers, paparazzi and all the professionals who make their living off of buzz. Members of the media--involved in a business, not a nonprofit service--are always tempted to slant the story to further their own purposes. Consider, for example, that the person who encouraged Linda S. Tripp to bring Monica Lewinsky's story into the open was Lucianne Goldberg, a New York book agent. (Though her Republican sympathies no doubt had a large role in her desire to expose Clinton...
...There's some imaging data suggesting that during learning they tend not to recruit [the same areas as younger adults,]" Wagner says. "Is this a strategic shift? If not, what can we do to recruit those areas...
...Crimson used that momentum shift to its advantage, winning the game...
...Bennett of Bellcore, sports statistician: Ty Cobb's 50 career steals of home and Cy Young's 511 wins will probably never be reached without a major shift in the nature of the game. Also in this category is Nolan Ryan's 5,714 strikeouts. Schilling, Clemens and Johnson have virtually no chance to break this record. On the other hand, Hank Aaron's 755-HR record is within reach of several current sluggers...
...doubt that Duke needed to change in order to survive, but to some doctors Snyderman represents a shift of power from the stethoscope to the calculator. In 1993, he replaced a longtime department chair with a doctor who also held an M.B.A. A group of dissidents petitioned Duke's board of trustees protesting the changes. But Snyderman survived, and last May his contract was extended again for five years...