Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walter Fauntroy, who was once one of King's closest aides and now represents the city in Congress. The official welcome was delivered by Mayor Marion Barry, and march security was directed by Police Chief Maurice Turner, both blacks. Says Turner, who in 1963 worked a twelve-hour shift on the Mall as an ordinary patrolman: "When people get teed off, they want to march, they go to the nation's capital. This is not new for us." Indeed, although the first March on Washington attracted the biggest crowd ever assembled in the city up to that time...
...crackdown represents an important shift in how the nation views wife abuse. No longer does a woman have to go it alone in a legal system that is stacked against her; no longer does she have to deny the suggestion, either stated or implied, that she got what she deserved. Now the courts and the community are swinging to her side?and the bullying husband is beginning to pay the price. ?By Jane O'Reilly. Reported by Barbara B. Dolan/Duluth and Elizabeth Taylor/New York...
...system eastward. That could cause a lot of raised temperatures this week on the East Coast, but it might salvage some of the harvest in the Midwest and allow Southern California and Nevada to dry out. For a nation coping with a most cantankerous and confounding summer, such a shift would be welcome indeed...
Such new approaches to money management have at once capitalized upon, and accelerated, a shift in the investing habits of the typical American family. Chief Portfolio Strategist Steven Einhorn of Goldman, Sachs estimates that individual investors bought $23 billion in stocks during the first three months of this year, twice the pace of the last quarter...
...Ireland's $1.1 billion budget deficit. Until recently, Ireland's exploration for oil has concentrated on Porcupine Basin, a storm-whipped area of the Atlantic 130 miles west of Galway Bay. The poor drilling conditions and evidence of only small deposits in that basin prompted a shift of attention to the shallower, calmer Celtic Sea. The discovery of a field there entails one other bit of Irish luck. The well lies not far offshore from a refinery that is currently used to process imported crude...