Word: shifting
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...eyes of his own coalition some people are afraid that he wouldn’t go far enough while others think he would go too far,” said Galston. He concluded that the president-elect will have to manage potentially inflated expectations as well as the shift from the “poetry of campaign” to the “prose of governance.” More than 150 students, faculty members, and Cambridge residents attended the panel. “The talk was really interesting,” said Andrew P. Gnau, a student...
...However, Purcell says his focus will soon shift back to the students...
...fundamental shift in how we think about our waste, and by extension, dispose of it, needs to be to stop mixing liquids and solids, says the WTO's Sim. "The human body is designed to separate solids from liquid waste," and we should follow suit, he says. By separating fecal matter from urine at the source in what's called a "urine diversion toilet," a wider ecological system of waste disposal becomes possible. Solids can be composted for fertilizer and harvested for methane gas. Urine can be used to produce phosphorous and nitrogen and clean, drinkable water. (The question...
...stumbling block. Younger Evangelicals are even more opposed to abortion than their parents. But it's also likely that the cultural identification between Evangelicals and the GOP is so strong that Democrats will need to invest more time to court them and ask for their votes before a shift can take place...
...Obama's biggest immediate challenge overseas will be to scale back the 150,000 U.S. troop contingent now in Iraq, and shift some of them to reinforce the 32,000 American soldiers now in Afghanistan. While national-security experts agree such a shift needs to happen, the key question is its timing. If U.S. forces are pulled out of Iraq too soon, U.S. commanders there argue, the fragile gains achieved the over the past 18 months could erode, and ultimately bring on a civil war. Obama has said he would like to pull up to 10,000 troops a month...