Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team member will count," according to Coach Dave Fish. With one of the season's most important matches coming up this weekend against Yale, two of the Crimson's six top players--Captain Adam Beren and Rob Loud--are out of the singles ranks, and Fish has had to shift his lineup...
...tantalizing new ideas for arms control: "de-MIRVing" schemes that would induce both sides to shift toward more survivable, less threatening, single-warhead missiles; plans that would require trading in two old warheads for every new one added; the notion of merging INF and START. But before bright ideas for the future can have a chance, the accomplishments of the past must be rescued from their current erosion and consolidated by being given the force...
During the services, Kunea explained Short's career shift from the radical politics pursued at Harvard to a conventional law career, calling it a "transition from liberalism to conservation." Kunea quoted Short as saying after beginning his law career. "Everything still strikes me as being just as bad, but not so appalling...
...This shift away from farce reduces all the earlier scenes, a good two-thirds of the play's to background for the real drama of the second half. In this light the play's first act is much too long and rambling; an entirely extraneous street women and her rabid dog, included purely for a few limp laughs, are only the furthest extreme of the play's meandering. The early scenes of the second act show what that first act might have been: here, the script is tight, and much more amusing...
Leonard's "Tale of Two Bridges" exemplifies a growing national problem which participants traced to three different factors. Knowlton added First, he said, the shift of responsibility from the federal to the state and local levels has caused a slowdown in the repair process...