Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Union organizers said the board ruling resulted from the pro-management shift the NLRB has taken since President Reagan took office in 1981. That decision reversed an earlier board decision and meant the UAW had to expand its drive beyond the Med School organizing all University clerical and technical workers...
...S.B.C. Fundamentalists last June scored their seventh and perhaps pivotal annual win in balloting on the denomination's president, re-electing Atlanta's Charles Stanley. Through presidential appointments, the well-organized right wing intends to take control of seminaries and other agencies away from moderate conservatives. Such a shift would greatly influence U.S. Protestantism...
...eroding. Major denominations that take a more flexible approach to the interpretation of Scripture have suffered a net decline of 4.6 million members since 1965. In the same years the Southern Baptists alone increased by 3.4 million. Among the causes of mainline shrinkage: the low birthrate of members, the shift of population to Sunbelt states where mainline denominations are weak, and the liberal churches' difficulty in holding the allegiance of their teenagers and young adults...
...talking about a shift in the balance of power, just a streamlining of the budgetary process and the addition of national interest into the regional brouhaha. The final product will, if anything, more adequately represent the will of the people, but will in no way cancel Congress's most prized possession: ultimate control over finances...
...fact that Testrake acted as the spokesman reflected the shift in attitude. On the plane from Wiesbaden, West Germany, Allyn Conwell, who had resigned as the group's spokesman, asked Testrake to replace him. A cool, articulate, square-jawed Texan, Conwell had alienated some by expressing "genuine sympathy" for the captors and equating the hostage taking with Israel's detention of hundreds of Shi'ites. Hill, for one, declared that Conwell had been "sucked in." Said an outraged Hill: "I asked him if he was going to carry the Koran and Islamic prayer beads with him to the White House...