Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changes are designed to shift the emphasis of the program from benefiting all children to serving the neediest. In some of the poorest districts, the cutbacks will have little effect. For example, about 84% of the 3,600 public school students in Lee County, S.C., are black, and 86% of them get free lunches. That will enable the county schools to collect a special 2?-per-meal subsidy paid to schools in which 60% or more of the meals served are free and reduced-price lunches. The county expects to receive the same $350,000 in cash subsidies that...
...Kitt Peak and Mount Hopkins in Arizona and Mount Palomar in California, they photographed patches of the night sky and got two-dimensional pictures showing the distribution of matter in a sector of space. To add the perspective of depth they used an astronomical yardstick called the red shift, a measure of how far an object has traveled based on how sharply its light is displaced toward the red end of the spectrum...
Without directly indicting the administration of President Reagan, Will said politicians of the right should shift their priorities toward creating a strong, centralized government to preside over a new conservative welfare state...
...average; by most of the world's standards, they live like caliphs The current constriction of their housing may make some Americans claustrophobic, but cross-cultural comparison might also remind them to be grateful for what they have It might encourage them, as well, to shift their perspectives outward a little, to conceive of themselves less as isolated units more as communities. It is not the individual hut that has cultural force and meaning, but the village as a whole, tl sum of our larger arrangements as a tribe. -By Lance Morrow
...spite of the anemic passing game, a long aerial gainer marked the final shift in momentum of a see-saw contest. Late in the third quarter, with the score 13-13 and Army in a third-and-14 situation, Allem dropped back to pass...