Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Neill's maxim that "all politics is local." Yet across the country this fall, the campaign cacophony of pointing with pride and viewing with alarm will largely focus on where the action has been the past two years: the state of the economy and the remarkable shift in domestic policy inaugurated by Reagan in January...
...Administration-supported proposal of tuition tax credits for parents who send their children to private schools, if approved by Congress, would by 1986 amount to 40% of the Federal Government's total projected expenditures for public school programs. This, concludes the Urban Institute, would be "a marked shift in the balance of federal support from public to private schools and from the disadvantaged to higher-income groups in the population...
Demographic Shift...
Recalling the "turbulent" years of Vietnam protests in the late 1960s, Nagy says he "was sympathetic of what my students were going through." But he says he perceives a definite shift in both student and faculty attitudes since that time. Referring to his colleagues, he says. "In those days, I think people felt if they signed petitions or manifestos, they were really accomplishing something. I think few of us would feel that way now, although some professors still do these things." As for students, Nagy says the emphasis on careerism has greatly lessened student activism...
Many lawyers welcome the shift away from sovereign immunity for municipalities. Argues Detroit Attorney Robert Dinges: "A city is no different from General Motors. If it commits a wrong, it should be just as liable as anyone else." Other lawyers, however, fear that the legal gains are outweighed by the losses. "A city is not like General Motors," says William Dietrich, Detroit's assistant corporate counsel. "If GM gets hit with a $1 million claim, it raises the price of its cars. When the city gets hit with $1 million, it lays off ten policemen. The people are going...