Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Shift...
...group of House Democrats led by Aspin, Albert Gore of Tennessee and Norman Dicks of Washington was urging that the U.S. shift away from large, MIRVed missiles and instead deploy mobile ones with single warheads, like the proposed Midgetman. This had been recommended by Reagan's bipartisan panel on nuclear strategy chaired by Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, which had nevertheless favored emplacing a limited number of MX missiles while the Midgetman was being developed...
...sexual harassment. Professor Dominguez' behavior was disgraceful. Yet even more disgraceful is Harvard's continued refusal to address this problem with the seriousness it deserves. This refusal has been costly both to individuals and to the community as a whole. For this reason, we feel it is important to shift the focus of public attention from Professor Dominguez to the issue of Harvard's responsibility for protecting its faculty, students and staff from the destructive impact of sexual harassment...
...only about 8%. As Dade County Assistant Superintendent Paul Bell has observed: "We have had a major shift of control from the local level to the state board of education, with the legislature acting as a superboard...
...leading men he saw as his incompetent rivals, all are evoked by Kingsley in brisk, meticulous sketches. Too brisk, perhaps: melodramatic incidents rumble past like a fleet of driverless stagecoaches. And interspersed are snatches of Kean's most famous soliloquies, none long enough to allow Kingsley to shift into character. It might be a Shakespeare's Greatest Hits album hawked on late-night...