Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest phase in the Red Line extension (1). the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority shut down the Harvard/Holyoke stations along Mass, Ave, and the Harvard/Brattle station near the K School. In their place, they opened up new terminals on Church St. and outside Johnston Gate. The shift was only the most visible sign of progress in the sprawling project, which has gutted the Square for five years and is expected to continue for another 18 months. The Square work is part of a $72 million project, which by 1986 will stretch subway service north beyond Harvard through Porter and Davis Squares...
...Critic Irving Howe recalls how he and Kristol held forth in Alcove No. 1 of the City College lunchroom in contentious dispute with fellow radicals, among them Trotskyites, socialists and other Marxist deviants, while Stalinists crowded into Alcove No. 2). Kristol's is a familiar and not discreditable shift in political outlook: he has described that earlier experience as the best education he ever got, but it did leave him with a certain tendentiousness in arguing. Thus, he complains that the "liberal media Establishment," by which he means the networks, the newsmagazines, the New York Times...
...shift at Harvard apparently reflects a national trend of the `80s,the Agency for International Development (AID), the federal government's for foreign assistance, has grown with capital development projects--such is said, dam and hospital building. Instead, in his increasingly favored training programs in areas such as business management as well as grants that bring foreign students to the U.S. to study, says Walter A. Grady, an AID spokesman. "We've shied away from capital developments because we've learned the lesson that they don't really benefit the poor...
...restrictions on trade with South Africa has also had repercussions on the debate and corporate involvement. For business, the word from Washington is that sales to South African government buyers are no longer automatically considered to provide support for apartheid. Although the dollar value of sales affected by this shift may be small, it provides a great boost for those who argue that U.S. firms can be in South Africa and not contribute to the maintenance of apartheid...
...Marcos, the Roman Catholic Church, the army and the opposition-the elections might have been credible. That, in turn, could have led to open debate, brought more young people into the political mainstream, improved the country's economic climate and generally bettered the prospects for a peaceful power shift when Marcos eventually departed from the scene...