Word: shifting
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...Dahmers have worked and prayed for years that the case against Bowers might be reopened. Now, thanks to new evidence and a shift in the state's public attitudes and politics, prosecutors appear ready to do just that--perhaps in the next few weeks. "We're very close to a reprosecution," says Michael Moore, the Mississippi Attorney General. "We're very optimistic we can bring Sam Bowers to justice...
When the student population of Harvard began to include second-generation children of immigrants, Eck took notice of the shift...
Clients of e-brokers have run afoul of computer glitches that delay the execution of trades for minutes or hours--while prices shift. Such problems caused anguish last October when jammed lines kept e-traders from bailing out as the market plunged 554 points...
...such a shift may be less of a new paradigm than the old politics of personality. I suspect that if Newt Gingrich were in Bill Clinton's cowboy boots, the American public would be saying, Pack up your bags. Even today, Gary Hart, who was once Warren Beatty's presidential candidate, would probably not get the benefit of the doubt that Bill Clinton is receiving. There was something holier-than-thou about Hart that folks just didn't cotton to. Bill Clinton comes across as a struggling sinner and never implies that he's better than the people who voted...
Allies of Karadzic, including Belgrade attorney Kosta Cavoski, have indicated that he will shift the blame for wartime atrocities to Mladic and to Yugoslav Federal Republic president Slobodan Milosevic, who has been granted conditional immunity...