Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parrying at the U.N. General Assembly's 36th session did not. Delegates were somewhat surprised that Haig chose to address the assembly on the problems of promoting the economic growth of poor nations, rather than on East-West issues. He rejected a Third World proposal for a massive shift of wealth from rich nations to poor nations as "unrealistic" and emphasized private investment as a potential cure for poverty. The solution did not sit well with many of his listeners...
Defense, however, is a slot that Finn is just getting used to. For eight years she has played mostly offense as a wing or a link, and her shift this year was both a tribute to her versatility as a player and a necessary adjustment for the lack of defensive depth on the hockey team...
...Employment and Training Act. Though this program must abolish its 300,000 public service jobs by the end of this month, the Labor Department estimates that some 50% of CETA-funded workers have already found other jobs, most with state and local governments. New York City, for example, will shift about 6,000 of its 9,000 employees to the city payroll, at a cost of $78 million...
Nowhere is the shift more apparent than in the field of civil rights. In briefs before the Supreme Court two weeks ago, Solicitor General Rex E. Lee startled the legal community by arguing that there was no "federal interest" in the questions of whether states can exclude the children of illegal aliens from public schools and whether it is unconstitutional for the states to ban voluntary busing. Both positions mark an abrupt break from previous Administrations-Republican as well as Democratic-and the first retreat on civil rights enforcement since the Truman era. The department is also reviewing federal affirmative...
...traditional economists gradually began to shift Reagan's program away from the original supply-side doctrine. Laffer assumed that large tax cuts would not be inflationary because they would stimulate enough business to compensate for the lost revenues by significantly increasing the Government's total tax take. But Reagan's more conservative advisers convinced him that tax cuts-and the inevitable, initially huge budget deficits-would fuel inflation unless accompanied by measures to restrain demand. Thus Reaganomics now includes not only a supply-side tax reduction but also calls for less Government spending and strict control over...