Word: shifting
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...lucid transitions and apparent connections begin to unravel near the end. True, she makes her point clear: there have been many examples of women who have earned the right to have their names alongside those of George Washington or Frederick Douglass. But at times, Ulrich’s awkward shift from a two-sentence summary of one woman to a brief mention of another woman diminishes the achievements of each; the reader has to transition so quickly from one story to the next that the details, while presented in full, are lost.Still, by discussing individuals who are too often absent...
...slew of senior officials, including Chen Liangyu, party secretary of Shanghai, who is under arrest and reportedly awaiting sentencing for his alleged role in a scheme that channeled enormous sums in pension funds into private investment. Hu and his close ally Premier Wen Jiabao have also sought to shift growth from the coast to the interior and tackle China's dreadful environmental problems...
...threat has a certain beautiful logic, even if following through with it would be suicidal. To conservatives who don't love Giuliani but hate Hillary Clinton, the message is very simple: Don't bother swallowing your principles to stop Clinton because if enough pro-lifers shift to a third party, Rudy loses anyway. The purists are also making a pragmatic argument: If your conscience doesn't guide you, how about self-interest? Take abortion off the table, warns Richard Land, the Southern Baptists' political point man, and "what you do is give the Democrats a license to go hunting...
...virtuecrats face a challenge from Republican voters who back Giuliani on principle--just a different set of principles from Dobson's. For many voters, the existential threat of Islamic terrorism trumps domestic social issues like abortion and gay marriage. A Pew Research Center poll finds a continuing shift in the issue valence: even among white Evangelical Protestants, the war is described as very important by 66%, compared with 56% for social issues. That can only help the former New York City mayor whose local war on terrorism was viewed as more competent than Bush's and who famously ejected Yasser...
...economist Bjorn Lomborg, who just came out with the book Cool It, and rebel greens like the political consultants Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, who detail their apostasy in Break Through. While their solutions may be flawed, the questions these contrarians raise about climate change are central as we shift into the next and more difficult phase in the debate: what should be done about...