Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jackson, sidelined most of this season with a series of injuries, played well throughout the tournament but was narrowly defeated in the finals, 3-2. A one-game shift in the out-come of Jackson's final match would have given Harvard the championship...
...symbols of U.S. support for the embattled Lebanese President. "As long as there is a chance for peace, the mission remains the same," Reagan had said only two weeks ago. "If we get out, that means the end of Lebanon." Despite efforts by Administration officials to paint the policy shift as purely a tactical maneuver, the withdrawal was widely interpreted not just as an admission of failure by the U.S. but as a loss of faith in Gemayel's capacity to hold his government together...
...standard-bearers who lashed out at the White House was Columnist George Will. He argued that the decision to redeploy the Marines, however it was put into effect, amounted to a "use of military assets as incompetent as the Iranian rescue mission or the Bay of Pigs." Calling the shift of U.S. troops a "retreat," Will charged that the U.S. may be "in the process of erasing itself from the Middle East. Another conservative pundit, the New York Times's William Safire, agreed: "We are failing because we want to settle, and the other side wants...
...language of the 1967 report illustrates a fundamental shift in administrative support for minority students. The past 15 years has seen a general change in campus race relations, mostly for the better. But while the Admissions Office has worked admirably to recruit and admit qualified students from disadvantaged minority backgrounds, other forces within the administration have not been as responsive to minority students' needs once they arrive at Harvard...
...detente with the Soviet Union, but that the U.S., with its global security and balance-of-power concerns, views detente as a failure. The U.S. and its allies, he said, "have tended, to some degree imperceptibly, to move farther and farther apart." As a result, he predicted "a shift in the center of gravity of U.S. foreign policy" away from the Atlantic relationship and toward the Pacific, especially Japan...