Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Laura: "Are you sure it's not 'maybe'? Are you sure it's not 'possibly'?" "It's definite," replied Ferraro. Laura screamed to her father, "Yes!" Then Ferraro called her mother Antonetta, 79, and told her to stop worrying about living alone in New York and "shift your prayers somewhere else." Said Antonetta: "I think I'm so excited, I'm going to faint...
...gender gap in the Democrats' favor, attracting a large majority of women voters to the party's coalition for years to come? Economic and ideological divisions among women are considerable, and women are scarcely likely to vote as a bloc. Still, some analysts believe that a historic shift could be hastened by Ferraro's candidacy. "The Democratic Party by this step has clearly embarked on redefining the party," says Pollster Steve Teichner. "This is a critical development in the realignment of political parties as we have known them...
...English and French. Mulroney has never held public office, and Turner has not held elective office since resigning as Finance Minister eight years ago. (Mulroney, who took over the Conservatives in June 1983, won his parliamentary seat two months later). Both are corporate lawyers who favor a mild rightward shift in government. Neither advocates a major assault on Canada's extensive social-welfare system, although both favor long-term reductions in the country's U.S. $22.5 billion federal deficit (7.7% of last year's G.N.P.) and a more receptive climate for foreign, particularly U.S., investment. Among...
Hard-liners within the Reagan Administration seized upon that request with glee. One low-level State Department cable even proclaimed that it "could lead to a significant shift from [Costa Rica's] neutralist tightrope act and push it more explicitly and publicly into the anti-Sandinista camp." Although the message did not reflect official policy, once leaked it produced an understandable outcry in Costa Rica...
...There was a major shift from objective, numerical questions to subjective, essay-type questions," said CUE editor-in chief John R I rever...