Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turn, he said, this shift away from unfunded mandates would allow local governments to experiment, innovate and tailor national ideas to better fit their state's character...
...this date, four of the seven largest supermarket chains in the country have endorsed the UFW pledge. The shift of the UFW campaign from a local struggle to a national attempt to generate pressure on the growers makes our role as students, located far from the strawberry fields of California, important...
...dead of the night, the hulks of four 372-ft. cooling towers and two high-domed nuclear reactor container buildings were scarcely discernible above the gentle waters of the Susquehanna River. Inside the brightly lit control room of Metropolitan Edison's Unit 2, technicians on the lobster shift one night last week faced a tranquil, even boring watch. Suddenly, at 4 a.m., alarm lights blinked red on their instrument panels. A siren whooped a warning. In the understated jargon of the nuclear power industry, an "event" had occurred. In plain English, it was the beginning of the worst accident...
...Left then. Then ahead, then left...snap!...again, follows that little sister in the tight pants a ways, then back on the beam. Arms arc. Could be some old trainman, swinging an imaginary lantern in the night. Smiling. Stepping so smart. Rolls, almost. Swings his butt like he's shifting gears in a swivel chair. Weight stays, sways, in his hips. Shoulders, straight, shift with the strut. High and light. Street's all his, past doubt. And more, if he wants. Could be he might step off that concrete. Just start flying away. It's all there, in the walk...
...reductions in aid for college students reflect a change in priorities for the Clinton administration this year. The administration is pushing to shift more funds into improving primary and secondary education, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley indicated in a statement...