Word: shifting
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...discussion over the group's open e-mail list last week--and a closed forum held this weekend--some members questioned if this demographic shift had compromised the group's ability to fulfill its constitutionally-stated mission to "share and explore the full wealth of the musical culture of Black people...
...wrote Sheldon K. X. Reid '96, who is aKuumba member and a student at the Graduate Schoolof Education. "If we are true to the meaning andthe spirit of the music then we ARE Blackenough...Yes, as the racial and culturalcomposition of a group changes, the focus of itsexpression may shift. But let us remember that weare all 'students of life,' and that skin-colorneither inherently implies an understanding ofhistory or culture, nor a lack thereof...
Most council members say women are still not adequately represented, and add that initiatives such as a new women's caucus have not yet effected a shift or change in the council's direction...
...President's talk of "partnership" at every stop has been noticeably short on specifics, it was still a refreshing shift from the usual patronizing handouts. Africans were still hearing a new emphasis. But it could have been something more. The message so far has been a series of set pieces illustrating bite-size issues rather than setting out a fully coherent policy. The one theme that came through loud and clear was apology for the past...
...lowering of trade barriers, the increase in foreign investment and the rapid integration of capital markets that is being driven by computers and cheap communications. Governments simply have less say over what happens in their domestic economies. In our new book, The Commanding Heights, we call this shift globality, the next step beyond globalization. It describes the high-velocity interconnected world economy in which the familiar borders are being surmounted or made irrelevant...