Word: shifting
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...justify what they do, and how we witness it. 15. FM: So, are you’re leaving the literary world for academia?CD: The tricky thing now is I have to decide whether to take myself seriously as a writer or not, and that’s a shift. It sort of happened by mistake. I didn’t take any creative courses at Harvard. I wasn’t part of the Advocate or the Signet. I’m not sure if I would even call myself a writer...
...immigration to the United States, led to overheating in the U.S. housing market, which ultimately resulted in the current financial crisis. The panelists addressed questions from the audience about how this credit crunch would affect the global financial system. “We will certainly see a fundamental shift,” said David A. Moss, a professor of business administration at the Business School. “The implications of the bailout are much larger than dollar value.” The real question is what American taxpayers want the government to do, he added...
...shift in age, more women who already have children - this really does paint a different picture of women having abortions than the way it's portrayed in popular culture," Jones says, in reference to the popular notion that unintended pregnancy happens to careless teens and college kids...
...Climate change has finally gained prominence on the international stage—the U.N. debate on climate begins this week—but Tong views this shift as too little, too late for island countries that will be affected regardless of “whatever we do.” As a result, he has begun the early stages of Kiribati’s coping strategy—an eventual full-scale evacuation of citizens to various recipient countries...
...people on three Tube trains and a bus. Two weeks later, on July 21, four more men outfitted with explosives failed to detonate themselves on London's transit system. An internal memo leaked on Sunday from Sir Ian Blair, chief of London's Metropolitan Police Service, seems to shift potential blame from the police force to the unprecedented security fears. "We confidently believed that our systems of command, of surveillance and of firearms intervention were among the best in the world," he wrote. "However, they failed in response to a previously unforeseen circumstance, suicide bombers on the run." Blair...