Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration plans to shift enforcement efforts from the smaller dealers to the major traffickers. Spearheading the drive is Francis ("Bud") Mullen, former FBI executive assistant director, who this month was put in charge of the DEA. He hopes to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute, the FBI'S favorite tool against organized crime, to confiscate drug-trade profits. One way of locating these gains is through stricter enforcement of the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act, which requires banks to disclose deposits that exceed...
...mayor's secretary ($18,000), for instance, was found to be performing work qualitatively equal to that of a senior air-conditioning mechanic and earning 40% less than what the repairman makes ($3 1,000). Librarian Linda Dyde makes $7,700 less than her counterpart, a plant-shift supervisor...
...weekly newspaper--yet to be named--will not change Harvard's political climate immediately. Quist said, but he added club members hope it might lead to an "incremental shift" in student opinion...
...ouster was formal proof that Deng had succeeded in his four-year struggle to shift the balance of power in the Peking leadership and win wide-based acceptance for his program to speed up China's economic growth. To fight Hua and his supporters, Deng had carefully put together a coalition of his own composed of thousands of officials who had been ignominiously disgraced-like Deng and Hu themselves-during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, returning from exile only after Mao's death. Under Deng, this group has sought to free China from the rigid constraints Maoism...
Eight of the ten largest Summer School courses, including all of the top five, are science or math classes, a dramatic shift from last summer...