Word: shifting
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...instructed federal prosecutors not to pursue medical-marijuana users or distributors as long as they are in compliance with state laws. Attorney General Eric Holder couched the directive as a commitment to the "efficient and rational use" of the Justice Department's limited resources. It marks a significant shift from Bush Administration policy, under which authorities raided dispensaries in the 13 states that currently permit residents with specific medical conditions, including AIDS and glaucoma, to toke up. While some advocacy groups hailed the measure--which codifies a plan loosely outlined by the Obama Administration in March--critics warned the guidelines...
...Shift in Cancer Screening...
...people who walk up to homes and stuff flyers into doors. Sometimes they are testing to see whether a door is unlocked or are casing the property for valuables. "A lot of times we'll see the same car come back three or four times in a single shift." (See more on TIME's Detroit blog...
...contest was particularly close—the score was tied 25 times—during the third and fifth sets. The Lions matched Harvard’s intensity in the third set and were able to shift the momentum in their favor. When the score was tied at 18, Columbia generated...
...losing its fight to keep any form of public option from ending up in the final legislation. And last week, the Chamber was the victim of an elaborate media hoax, when activists put out a fake press release and held a phony news conference announcing the Chamber's supposed shift in its controversial climate change stance...