Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...schools and houses, dispense medical care or develop cottage industries and cooperative farms. But starting with a 1966 policy statement, the society also began emphasizing the need for change in social systems and the rallying of oppressed groups to demand their civil and economic rights. One priest explains the shift: "The church is no longer only involved in giving the campesinos plows and tools, but in making them conscious of their situation...
Summer School officials said yesterday that the discussions of alcohol use were routine and not caused by any problems so far this summer. Several proctors said they viewed the warnings as a "crack-down" and a shift from an implied policy of leniency...
What the Socialists really promise is not so much a "new economic order" as a shift in priorities: the campaign against unemployment will now take precedence over Giscard's preoccupation with inflation fighting. Meanwhile, the new government has acted capably and responsibly on the monetary front, continuing ex-Premier Raymond Barre's efforts to shore up the sagging franc...
...months later, the once mighty News is staggering. News Editor Michael O'Neill announced last week that Felker will no longer edit Tonight, because he wants to pursue "outside interests." Felker's shift to consultant status was greeted with relief by some in the newsroom; they had feared that Chicago's Tribune Co., owner of the Daily News, was preparing to shut down Tonight-or even sell the News. The Hearst Corp. reportedly has turned down an opportunity to buy the News, though spokesmen for both companies deny it. In any case, O'Neill...
...squat, 40,000-sq.-ft. powder-blue building that houses a most unusual factory. The clattering machines that each day churn out 600,000 pens, pencils and markers are ordinary enough, but the work force is special. The warehouse manager, for example, is Donald Little Bull, and the second-shift supervisor is Le-Roy Bullshoe. The chief executive is Chief Earl Old Person, 52, head of the Blackfeet tribe and chairman of the Blackfeet Indian Writing...