Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many Americans, the real issue--achieving significant progress toward the ultimate goal of multilateral disarmament--may be rost in this flurry of rhetoric and throw-weight rosters. They will watch Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev shift the spotlight to the ever-contradictory statistics and the perceptions of false security they create. The unwillingness of government leaders and strategic scholars to distance themselves from minutiae and set aside their vaunted political symbolism, even in this most dangerous of all confrontations, demonstrates an estrangement from the real issues. Citizens here must follow the lead of European activists and voice an overwhelming demand...
...Haitians take care of each other as well as they can," says Fernand Cayard, owner of a local supermarket. "No one is sleeping on the streets." Jean François, a 25-year-old Haitian, shares a three-bedroom wooden frame house with 19 fellow refugees. "Everyone sleeps in shifts," explains François. "He who works gets the shift of his choice. Those who can pay help pay the rent...
With U.S. business continuing to shift further and further away from basic manufacturing, which now accounts for less than 25% of G.N.P., and toward service-type fields such as law, accounting, tourism and finance, armies of white collar employees have become indispensable to the conduct of business. Last year, workers, ranging from clerks to chief executives, earned more than $760 billion in wages and salaries, or more than 25% of the total output of the economy. Getting control of that skyrocketing cost, and making sure that the money is well spent, has become one of the most critical challenges facing...
Problems contributing to delays include: inexperienced drivers, dispatchers' shift changes and student's not showing up for rides they have ordered, Day said...
After making the shift from flanker to split end during the preseason, to accommodate Ron Cuccia's move to quarterback, Scheper expected to see a lot of balls coming his way. Instead, the team's fastest player (4.55 in the 40) has caught just nine passes through nine games (a rib injury kept him out against Holy Cross), including three for touchdowns. His season was typified by the Princeton game, in which he caught three passes--two of them were nullified by penalties and on the third, an official ruled that he caught the ball out of bounds. Statistically, Scheper...