Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scope and the murderer(s) remained unknown. Yet there is an astonishing amount of pure wide-eyed trust that people give their social structures, no matter how fragile they are shown to be. What the public has done in the face of this particular emergency is simply to shift its faith temporarily from the pillmakers and sellers to several other social institutions: the Government, the police, the media. These institutions are hardly those that the public always believes in, but in this case the shift seems understandable, since there is nowhere else to turn if one wishes to avoid...
...made, we were checking to be sure that we were ready to transmit Iranian money from our Government depository to the Bank of England. Cutler whispered that there was no way to transfer the Iranian money: the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had no funds available. Fortunately, a shift of funds among the banks of the Federal Reserve System corrected the problem. We had narrowly avoided a most embarrassing oversight...
William S. Flanagan, shift fireman for B&G's utility's operation division, said yesterday that the delays are due to "renovations additions. and repair to the heating systems of all Houses on the river...
Leder discovered that many diverse antibodies are produced when a limited number of genes shift from one part of a chromosome to another...
...streak of cruelty: laughter inevitably claims a victim. Order is always sacrificed to chaos. But My Favorite Year positively wallows in benignity. The screwball comedies of the 30s could get away with that, but sheer niceness just isn't a cinematic virtue any longer. A recent example of this shift came last year in Victor/Victoria, in which Blake Edwards momentarily lost his customary sharpness and floundered around in a bland, sentimental limbo. Likewise, My Favorite Year contains too many lovable characters, too many cute situations, and in the end it becomes oppressively fluffy. Even the movie's villains corrupt teamster...