Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the same line took its final shift later in the period, it produced two goals in two minutes. Hurley and Carroll each picked up their second goal of the night as the Crimson scoring machine picked the Eagles apart...
...early days as a state legislator, he was an outspoken conservative, opposing school busing and the Equal Rights Amendment and supporting the death penalty. Though he is still against busing, he has moved to the center on most other issues. Both he and King vowed that they would shift the city's resources away from the downtown development that has been favored by retiring Mayor Kevin White and back into Boston's long-neglected neighborhoods. Softening his populism with tiny doses of political prudence, Flynn also committed himself to keeping the downtown area strong...
Where did he stand, finally? He called himself "a man of the left," realizing that most of his allies shied away from or repudiated his maverick views. In fact, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four have long been embraced by the right as anti-revolutionary tracts. Yet such terms shift with time; what was left 20 years ago could be mainstream now and reactionary by 2001, or vice versa. Orwell's work has proved itself, with some exceptions, grounded on bedrock...
...Businesses would pay $6 at the beginning. But the proposal is running into trouble. Legislation proposed by Colorado's Democratic Congressman Timothy Wirth and Oregon's Republican Senator Bob Packwood would eliminate the charge to private individuals and small businessmen and shift it back to AT&T and other long-distance phone companies. Theodore Brophy, chairman of GTE, calls the access charge "an unmanageable economic burden on those who make minimum use of long-distance service...
...example, is questionable. Like many liberal and left wing critics of current U.S. policy, LaFeber asserts that American over-reaction to Sandinista actually pushed Nicaragua into the arms of Cuba and the Soviets. A closer reality in the explanation given by former junta members that argues that Nicaraguan shift to the left was the result of the Marxist inspired Sandinistas emerging from an anti-Somoza coalition as the predominant political power. One fact LaFeber doesn't cite is that only eight months after rebels poured into Managua, and as U.S. aid was still coming in on a steady basis. Sandinista...