Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State of the Union and budget messages, Reagan will shift his stance...
...policy changes accompanying this shift in rhetoric, however, are in some cases minor. Job programs are an example. Reagan is likely to suggest little more than a revival of his "enterprise zone" plan to give businesses tax breaks if they set up shop in city slums; a tiny increase of perhaps $300 million in job-training funds; and permission for employers to pay subminimum wages to teenagers hired for summer jobs...
CHICAGO. Sandburg's "City of the Big Shoulders" (pop. 3 million) has become schizophrenic. In this updated tale of two cities, one is prospering, the other increasingly depressed. For the latter, officials are trying to speed up a successful shift from heavy industry to a finance and service economy. "Chicago has known for 25 years that its future was not going to be based on steel mills or stockyards," says Louis Masotti, a Northwestern University political scientist. "What is happening is a realignment of priorities and of purpose...
...results of an ongoing review of Harvard's troubled Buildings & Grounds (B & G) department began to come in as a committee recommended that the responsibility for maintenance and supervision of facilities shift to the faculties. The recommendation comes in the wake of widespread criticism of B & G's services and efficiency...
...shift to smaller airliners has also saved McDonnell Douglas' commercial-aircraft division, which is long on cost-efficient smaller planes but has not been able to sell one of its star-crossed DC-10s in two years. In November, the company announced a $1 billion contract to sell 30 new 142-passenger DC-9 "Super 80s" to Alitalia, Italy's national airline...