Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WITH COLLEGE ADMISSIONS a hot topic of three years' standing, educators have found it difficult to shift their perspectives from that pre-college transition. Yet that's exactly what the current crisis of quality so desperately demands. Consequently, old-school admissions officials try to deal with today's deficiencies by tinkering with the admissions process, blindly hoping that high schools' traditional admissions anxiety will prompt them to upgrade their curricula...
Kennedy saw his first U-2 photographs of what appeared to him to be "football fields" in the countryside adjacent to San Cristobal, Cuba on Tuesday, October 16. The Central Intelligence Agency informed the President that these were make-shift Soviet missile bases. For the next seven days, "even those in the White House didn't know what was going on," says Dan H. Fenn '44, then a staff assistant to Kennedy and now the director of the Kennedy Memorial Library in Boston. As the President and his inner circle of national security advisers struggled toward a decision to blockade...
...sharp drop in the Dow Jones industrial average last Tuesday did not shake Rolland's conviction that a fundamental shift in the market was at hand. Nonetheless, he was concerned enough to hold a new strategy session with his top tacticians. Says he: "In this kind of atmosphere you expect down days, because there are too many people in the market who take their profits and run. But right now we think the trend is still up." Rolland's optimistic outlook: if interest rates continue to decline and confidence in the economy grows stronger, the Dow Jones index...
...NIGHT SHIFT Directed by Ron Howard Screenplay by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel...
Chuck Lumley (Henry Winkler) is a human fire hydrant for the mad dogs of Manhattan. Delivery boys smear mustard on his door jamb. Sex with his fiancée, a compulsive eater, is a quick kiss between bites of Mallomars. And his new partner on the night shift at the city morgue. Bill Blazejowski (Michael Keaton), is trouble: a pin wheel of sputtering ideas, a motormouth that roared. Out of desperation and a growing fondness for the girl next door (Shelley Long), Chuck devises a scheme that will make them all rich: he and Billy will act as "business agents...