Word: shifting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tajzadeh, the pressure on him, "combined with the terrible situation of the country," has made Khatami feel a social obligation to run against Ahmadinejad. A victory by the reformist leader who promoted domestic liberalization and accommodation with the West on the international front would mark a profound political shift from Ahmadinejad, whose foreign policy has been based on an uncompromising defiance. But victory is far from certain, and that may be one reason Khatami has agreed...
Eric Holder Jr. was trained long ago in crime and punishment. He grew up in the East Elmhurst section of Queens, N.Y.--so populated by cops and firefighters that rush hour looked like the shift change at a station house. A popular teen prank was setting off the red fire-alarm box near his modest brick house on 101st Street. Nearly everyone tried it once, but not Eric, the churchgoing Boy Scout who knew the consequence of disobeying rules: "A good, quick smack on the bottom," his mother Miriam recalls. "If you did something wrong, you're going to have...
...last tour in long form, “Brother Sport,” a distinctively Lennox-penned track, simultaneously encapsulates the music that comes before it and renders it obsolete. In lieu of verses, the song builds up momentum through three separate sections, each with its own chorus, that shift into one another and arrive, from initial reverie, upon jubilant catharsis. At six minutes, it’s barely long enough.As has become customary, new songs from the band are already appearing in their ensuing tour. This material seems to indicate a more settled, atmospherically uniform sound than ever before...
...struggle to combine Harvard’s expectations with their own. “I’m trying to reveal the limbo, the in-between period,” Costello said. “It’s such a profound time of transformation. The nuances of the shift for each individual each had their own way of falling onto the film.”While Costello documented students’ discoveries of what it means to be a Harvard student, Isidore M. T. Bethel ’11 applied a standard Harvard skill, a knack for analyzing novels...
...White House organizational chart, both the faith-based-initiatives office and the advisory council will fall under the purview of the Domestic Policy Council. That decision represents a significant shift from the Bush Administration, in which the religious-liaison operation was focused more on outreach than on policy generation and its stated mission was relatively simple: to expand the opportunities for faith-based and other community organizations to compete for federal funds. The faith-based discussion largely centered on the question of who provided social services, and Bush himself weighed in on the side of arguing that faith-based organizations...