Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...checked out the craps tables. This adorable guy, my type, with the Southern drawl, the boots and the $500 chips, told me to step right up and be his good luck. Well, after ten minutes I realized I'd have to stand there all night to shift his attention away from the table...
...women who work the graveyard shift sneak in for a cigarette. Says a cocktail waitress: "We're supposed to go to designated areas for our breaks, and otherwise the bosses want us out on the floor all the time." "The bosses" is the Las Vegas equivalent of "the Man," covering every rank of power from a floor supervisor to a casino manager to the Mob to God. The bosses are, almost without exception, men. "Dorks, all of them," says a cashier. "A boss asked me out last week. We'd go to the mountains, he said. You guessed...
Because flight delays are up 73% this year, air carriers have said they would be willing to discuss spreading out their flight schedules, which overload airports at peak periods. But no carrier wants to be first to shift flights to unpopular times. So preparations for industry-wide talks on scheduling, which require a Government exemption from antitrust prosecution, have proceeded about as slowly as a search for lost baggage...
...that gender was influenced by the timing of conception within the menstrual cycle and by the acidity or alkalinity of the female reproductive tract. A douche of vinegar, he contended, would confer an advantage on sperm bearing an X chromosome (for females), while a douche of baking soda would shift the odds toward the Y-bearing sperm (for males). Shettles' theory has now been generally discredited...
...same time, the slowing down of the economy's growth indicates that the recovery will last longer than would otherwise be expected, hence the shift to longer-term bonds...