Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West has a vital stake in Saudi Arabia's oil and the stability of the Saudi regime in its turbulent region. To fend off Soviet encroachment and the threats of neighbors serving as Moscow's proxies, the U.S. must provide the Saudis with adequate defenses. The sale would not shift the balance of military strength in the Middle East away from Israel, and it would provide the Saudis with a token of American reliability. Finally, the protection of the remaining moderate Arab states after the assassination of Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was essential to the interests of Israel...
...intuition and polling experience tell him that the much-heralded national shift to the right may prove more ephemeral than Republican politicians hope. Democrats, Barone says, will be able to use the Social Security issue to particular advantage in the 1982 Congressional elections. "When people start thinking about getting old, it's a very emotional thing. You can't see the social security issue without seeing King Lear. The Democrats can capitalize on that...
...shot at a fifth seat, it won't be decided until the last two transfers. Clinton or Russell will be battling it out with Abt or Wylie, and it could be extremely close. But the late shift in momentum--and the nagging thought that there may just not be enough CCA voters in the city--indicate it may not come down to the wire at all, that the present equilibrium maintaining its precarious balance on Vellucci, will persist...
...inevitability does not make the transition any easier, especially for those Danburyites who have seen their city shift from farming to hatmaking to light industry without its essential character changing. And one emblem of constancy had always been the fair. Back in 1946, the fairground was taken over by a local man, John W. Leahy, who in the early 1920s transformed his machine shop into one of the largest oil and gas distributorships in the area. Leahy journeyed as far as London to buy some stock from a shareholder in the society that had run the fair since its founding...
Partners' goal, which might be called the City Livable, is a reaction to the anonymity of international-style architecture and its obsession with wiping the city clean of natural and human messiness. It emphasizes a shift from monumental construction to humble restoration, from large parks to intimate plazas, from a universal style to local tradition. Says Robert McNulty, 41, president of Partners: "We wanted to pull together everyone who is concerned about the environment and to increase awareness of the need for art and design in the places where we live...