Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend of thers at the party said she was braless and wore a revealing dress. But the waitress who served her and the three doctors at a coffee-shop on the road back from Rockport said she dremembered the woman in the group as wearing a severe shift, the top half of which was rumpled and covered with tint...
...America a decrease in the global rate of inflation; a more, stable supply of raw materials at a stable price: an expanded market for our capital-intensive exprts; and most importantly, a more harmonious relationship with the vast majority of the world's nations. In fact, if we shift some of our expenditures from arms to the policies of the NIEO or some alternative program--slowly, at first--we may well set in motion a positive feedback cycle which will not only digest the very roots of our hellishly costly arms race, but do so with ever increasing momentum...
Wesleyan University this weekend became the first major university to announce publicly a shift in financial aid policy because of costs, when its trustees voted unanimously to adopt a policy of rejecting some applicants who cannot pay full tuition...
...added that Wesleyan's public shift would be unlikely to spur other colleges to take similar actions immediately. Wesleyan has traditionally been "so specific" in its commitment to diversity and to aid-blind admission. Jewett said, that the shift may have appeared more significant that it would at other institutions...
...there were several unresolved issues. GM and the union could not agree on job guarantees for production workers or on how to limit the shift of auto-parts production to cheaper, nonunion manufacturers. There was also disagreement on how to match benefit cuts of blue-collar workers with those of white-collar employees...