Word: shifting
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...Japanese now live in Shanghai alone. The flood the other way is even more impressive: at half a million strong, Chinese legal immigrants now make up the largest group of recently arrived foreigners in Japan - and, no, they're not just stirring woks or taking the graveyard shift at convenience stores. More than 80,000 Chinese students are studying at Japanese universities, two-thirds of Japan's total foreign college-student population. Upon graduation, they are entering the Japanese workforce, crowding lucrative fields such as IT and biotech. Sheer numbers work in China's favor; each year Japan graduates...
Brown is straining to shift the collective mood back in his favor, promising better cancer care for Britons and even attempting to turn around his party-funding embarrassment by proposing a fresh look at the rules that govern it. His own supporters are gloomy, recalling another Prime Minister who inherited the remains of an electoral term from his predecessor. "The danger for Brown is that this will start to be like [John] Major's government, buffeted by things happening to it, in permanent reactive mode, trying to micromanage each response to each incident, occasionally relaunching, and never really able...
...John W. Curtis, one of the report’s authors, said that universities like Harvard have a lot of teaching done by graduate students. “It’s becoming much more common for graduate students to become the sole instructor and the more of a shift in that direction, the more that grad students are being treated as part-time faculty,” said Curtis, who is the AAUP’s director of research and public policy. While this pattern is believed to be particularly prevalent at research universities, like Harvard, Curtis said that...
...president for life. This is the opposition’s first major electoral victory since Chavez came to power. Federico Andrés Ortega Sosa, a second-year student at the Kennedy School of Government from Caracas, Venezuela, said the election results might signal “a momentum shift,” since the Venezuelan president has been enjoying “victory after victory” since he was elected in 1998. He also said some could interpret the defeat as proof that the Venezuelan government is indeed a democracy. “If somebody can turn...
...long-running argument over the true authorship of one of Elizabeth’s works. When the three characters find themselves in possession of the unpublished manuscript of a famous but recently deceased author, they are at odds over what to do with it. Their plans and alliances constantly shift until the play’s climactic revelation...