Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...election of a Democratic president and, say, a turn to the right in Congress. More to the point, no one is really expecting the Republicans to make any major inroads into the Democratic majority in the House. The real action is going to be in the Senate, where a shift of six seats could return the Democrats to the top perch and return important committee chairmanships to senators like Sam Nunn (Armed Forces), Edward M. Kennedy (Labor and Human Resources), and Lloyd Bentsen (Environment and Public Works...
...Navy Secretary Lehman told reporters that the destroyer's salvos signified "a definite shift in emphasis. We are supporting [Gemayel's] Lebanese Armed Forces" in their battles with Muslim militia. As the White House speedily reminded Lehman, that contradicted repeated statements from Reagan that naval gunfire is supposed only to protect the Marines' encampment and other U.S. positions around Beirut, like the embassy compound, by silencing artillery and missile batteries that have fired on them. Less than three hours later, Lehman issued a six-line statement asserting that "the correct policy is ... as the President has stated...
...long experience in the Soviet bureaucracy, Chernenko advocated a clearer separation between the work of the party and that of state and economic organizations. The result, he said, would be less duplication of effort. Said he: "Workers at municipalities, ministries and enterprises do not display the necessary independence, but shift to party bodies the matters that they should handle themselves." If such practices continued, warned Chernenko, they would weaken the party's political role. He reaffirmed that the party's strength must be "its contact with the masses" and "their practical attitude to production matters, to problems of public life...
Even if the two sides could meet halfway on terms for a new round of talks, and even if the Administration did embrace the State Department's recommended shift, the talks would be arduous. The State Department's framework approach, with its ceilings on missile warheads, would still cut by about half the number of warheads the Soviets would be allowed to have a decade from now. The Soviets are certain to resist such a proposal, even in exchange for significant U.S. concessions...
Even if the Administration did follow up with a substantive shift in policy, there would be a strong inclination in Moscow to see how much further the Administration might budge before reciprocal Soviet concessions were necessary. That process, too, would take time, especially since it would coincide with the distractions and disruptions of a presidential campaign in the U.S. as well as a period of consolidation in the Kremlin...