Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grown children stop and reconsider. Says Pulitzer-prizewinning Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman: "You find women who have believed work is the end-all and beall. But after eight years, they say, just like the housewives, 'Is this all there is?' " Washington Child Psychologist Carlotta Miles sees the shift toward mature motherhood as a very positive step. Says she: "Women no longer think that in order to be equal they have to take something fundamental away from themselves. The something turned out to be having a family...
Emphasis on the Socratic method for second and third-year students has already waned somewhat at other schools, but if Harvard professors shift to the case-study approach and incorporate if into the influential textbooks they write, others would probably follow suit...
...decisions on whether to shift budget strategy, of course, would be taken by Ronald Reagan, who has made the budget less the symbol than the sword of his struggle to reverse the direction of Government. The President astonished even his own supporters by his sweeping victories last year - but that was be fore the recession and the estimates of towering deficits. This year's battle of the bulge will be an entirely new campaign. - By George J. Church...
Mubarak pushed hard for the right to shift expenditures from the ambitious develop ments favored by Sadat, such as building cement factories, to small-scale construction, especially of housing. He also wants to change commodity imports from luxuries to staples...
...inflexible pressure against it. Often marriages are inherently unstable. China is still a country where a great many alliances were arranged by parents, or through go-betweens, on a "marry now, love later" basis. Moreover, couples frequently find themselves trapped in political marriages that seem pointless after each new shift in the political winds. During the Cultural Revolution a young librarian suspected as an "intellectual" was terrified of the rampaging Red Guards. She married the rebel leader at her high school to gain political protection in an alliance known as a "Red Umbrella" marriage. When the revolution was over...