Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter of days, even hours, after the New Hampshire primary, polltakers from Boston to Birmingham detected shifts in voter sentiment so rapid and large that at first they seemed a matter of sampling error, a computer blip. Vast numbers of citizens who had barely heard of Hart in mid-February had decided, literally overnight, that they would like to see him become the Democratic nominee. Three weeks ago Mondale thought he had Massachusetts locked up. Only ten days later, Mondale had written off the state. "It's the most incredible shift in public opinion I've ever seen...
...machine-gun and rocket duels erupted between Christian and Muslim militiamen, killing two people and wounding at least 27 others. But in the early stages of the uneasy Pax Syriana imposed two weeks ago by Syrian President Hafez Assad, the main participants in the Lebanese tragedy were trying to shift most of their efforts from shooting to squabbling over the political future of their battered nation. Even under Assad's tutelage, the question was whether the Lebanese could reach any sort of agreement that will not result in further fragmentation of the country...
...constant desire to discover new issues. This year's seems to be the search for an industrial policy. Part also relates to the declining political importance of cities. By 1970 more people lived in suburbs than in central cities, and that pattern has continued over the last decade. This shift in population, which is magnified when voter participation in considered, has made it harder for mayors to argue their case in Washington or state capitals. A set of internal political changes have reinforced this overall loss of political power, particularly the decline of the machine and the increasing polarization...
Masson carefully traces this shift, chronicled in the letters Freud wrote to Fliess in the aftermath of the operation. According to Masson. "The powerful tool that Freud was discovering the psychological explanation of physical illness, was being pressed into service to exculpate his own dubious behavior [in allowing the operation] and the even more dubious behavior of his closest friend. Freud has begun to explain away his own bad conscience...
...shift from an emphasis on technocratic grandiosity to humanistic sensitivity, an approach that other cities might heed, is largely due to the work of the Jerusalem Committee, initiated in 1968 by Mayor Kollek. The group is made up of some 100 architects, urbanists, historians and theologians from 25 countries; its members include Mumford, Architect Philip Johnson, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh of the University of Notre Dame, former CBS Chairman William S. Paley and German Educator Hellmut Becker. Asking the committee's advice is Kollek's way of saying that Jerusalem belongs not only to Jews...