Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amendments are designed to reduce illegal conversions, and shift the responsibility for infractions from purchasers to developers. The original law was adopted in 1979 in an attempt to slow the drain on Cambridge's rental housing stock from condo conversions. It requires that a permit be granted by the city before any rental unit is taken off the market...
Your article "New Maladies" [June 29] prompts me to report another one. After 30 years of driving a large gas-guzzling automatic-shift car, I switched to a four-cylinder gas saver and developed "manual-transmission knee" from operating the clutch...
There are signs, however, of a shift in attitude. It stems in part from studies showing that the gripping pelvic cramps as well as the headaches, backache, nausea and diarrhea suffered by many women during their monthly flow may be caused by prostaglandins. These potent chemicals, produced by the body, help regulate functions such as blood pressure, blood clotting and reproduction. Says Demers: "Some prostaglandins made by the uterus precipitate the contractions that are necessary for menses and labor. But when they're produced in excess, the uterine muscle cramps." Carried through the bloodstream to other parts...
Nebulous as the idea is, real change will demand a change in white attitudes that will inexorably lead to a change in actions. More than likely, that shift won't come, for it will mean something much harder than paying more taxes, or relinquishing first place in the line for civil service jobs. It will mean accepting the notion that Black Americans really do have grievances, and that those grievances are the work of white Americans. It will mean admitting guilt, and that means getting past the stiffening of the spine in resentment--as the CCA, or The Crimson...
...sometimes capricious and sometimes just a bit too out of control for comfort. In these silences Shepard does his best exploration--and into these silences this production does not attempt to read too much. These characters for the most part are shadows--inventive shadows (Pablo's and Louis's shift from the childish to the grandiose are beautifully done)--but for the most part they allow themselves the restraint needed to remain unwitting victims. Occasionally the pace of the show is a bit off and the silences are lost, but for the most part the subtlety is to be commended...