Word: shiftings
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White House Shift...
Although administration approval for the Justice Department's prosecution program appeared to be a shift away from President Reagan's opposition to peacetime draft registration, which he expressed during the election campaign last year, a White House policy adviser said last week that the President has made no decision on the future of registration and is still strongly opposed to a draft...
Your article on the Japanese internment camps was very moving, but let there be no attempt to shift the "burden of shame" to the U.S. Remember the national fury aroused by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor at the very moment their diplomats were negotiating in Washington. Reports of spy stories in Hawaii and on the West Coast, whether true or not, were almost universally believed. With the Death March on Bataan and the abuse of American P.O.W.s in Japanese camps, is there any wonder that jittery Americans from the Governor of California down expected the worst...
...economic turn-around promised by Ronald Reagan is still dim and distant, but at least one stunning shift in U.S. financial fortunes has already unfolded: the rebound of the dollar. Since January, the American currency has risen by 14% against the Japanese yen, 27% against the West German mark and 33% against the Italian lira...
Nurses' salaries now average $14,800 a year. But last month Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia began offering newcomers almost $19,000 a year, more than double what it paid in 1974. At Hollywood Medical Center in Florida, nurses on the night shift can earn up to $35,000 a year, about twice what many medical residents make. Flexible work hours are being introduced as well. One plan allows nurses to work a 24-hour weekend and get paid for a 40-hour week, full benefits included. At some places, weekend shifts can be avoided altogether...