Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably the biggest shift of emotion in such a short period of time I've ever experienced," he adds...
...League admissions officers yesterday attributed the declines primarily to three factors the shrinking number of 18-year-olds in the country, anxiety about financial aid, and a substantial shift in the concentration of families from the Northeast and New England to the Southwest and Sun Belt states, where they are harder to reach through recruitment...
...magnitude of the Democratic shift in the House was larger than originally expected by the Republicans, who in the first blush of Reagan's landslide 1980 victory had harbored hopes of capturing the chamber this year. Since World War II, the average loss in a mid-term election by a party that has just won the White House is twelve; the Democrats under Jimmy Carter lost eleven in 1978. In fact, not since 1922 has a party lost as many seats in its first mid-term election...
...more subtle shifts involve regionalism, ideology and experience. A continental population shift disclosed by the 1980 census created 17 new seats in the South and West, mostly taken away from the Northeast and Midwest. That was once expected to help Republicans, but Democrats proved more adept at the fine art of gerrymandering, and so they won nine of the new Sunbelt districts. Regardless of party, however, the shift in the regional balance of power will inevitably affect the way the new House squints at the nation...
...oust him. All reason enough for the Reagan Administration to have put a high priority on maintaining at 23 the G.O.P.'s share of governorships. Another factor last week that made the gubernatorial races a bit more important to the President: his already unpopular New Federalism proposal to shift welfare burdens to the states depends on the Governors' cooperation...