Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With only the baggage of their memories and their accents, the refugees came prepared to be instant Americans. "I believe," Thomas Mann told his new hosts, "that for the duration of the present European dark age, the center of Western culture will shift to America. It is my own intention to make my home in your country, and I am convinced that if Europe continues for a while to pursue the same course as in the last two decades, many good Europeans will meet again on American soil." Like Brecht, who went from Germany to Czechoslovakia to Austria to Switzerland...
...Simpson-Mazzoli bill would take some of the burden off the Border Patrol and shift it to employers who have been turning a blind eye to their undocumented workers. But the bill is no panacea. The trek of immigrants will continue as long as some countries are rich and stable, and others are poor and torn by political dissension. Given the parlous state of so many other economies, the U.S. stands to be the land of opportunity for some time to come...
Shultz's praise for Pickering glossed over a power struggle that has absorbed Washington ever since the Secretary of State abruptly announced on an airplane bound for the Williamsburg summit that he would replace the tall, patrician Enders. According to the Administration, the shift was merely routine. In fact, it brought into the open a fight over who would control U.S. policy in Central America and especially in embattled El Salvador. In theory, the change left Shultz in absolute charge of Central American affairs, but some skeptics wondered if the shuffle might leave more authority with the White House...
...shift at Harvard apparently reflects a national trend. Since the 60s, the Agency for International Development (AID), the federal government's main channel for foreign assistance, has grown dissatisfied with captial development projects--such as road, dam and hospital building. Instead, it has 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 development 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...