Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this dramatic shift come about in a nation long purported to have its heart on the left but its pocketbook, and its votes, on the right? Why such a crushing rejection of an incumbent President who only six months ago was given 60% in the opinion polls, and whose performance had seemed so creditable in many respects? Under Giscard, after all, France had become Europe's foremost aerospace manufacturer, the largest European producer of nuclear energy, a world leader in industrial and agricultural exports and, on the whole, a more prosperous nation than when he took office seven years...
...result was that ABC and CBS did not shift to continuous coverage until some two hours after the shooting; NBC kept airing soap operas, which it interrupted with news updates and longer accounts. Rather and Reynolds bracketed every report with cautionary qualifiers and apologetic explanations to viewers about the difficulties in getting the story. Said Rather: "There will be some conflicting information. We do our best to sort it out." By midafternoon, as John Paul underwent 5½ hr. of surgery, medical information grew sparse and anchormen were often hard-pressed for something useful to say. Soon even Rather...
...expire next year--forbids nine states with a history of voting rights abuses and areas of 13 other states from changing their election laws without prior approval from the Justice Department or a federal court. The snail's pace with which the legal system operated made it necessary to shift the power to act in voter-discrimination cases out of the courts into the hands of the executive. President Lyndon B. Johnson...
Lown believes that the general public does not understand the full implications of the government's policy shift. "As long as there was deterrence, there was time to respond," he says. It now takes 30 minutes for a missile set off by the U.S. or the USSR to hit the other, but if the two countries have pre-emptive policies. "Any suspicion of an attack leaves little time to think through the nature of an attack...
...coupled with his bold program, may even have forged a new coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats that will give the G.O.P. practical control of the House, despite the Democrats present 51-member majority. With Republicans firmly in control of the Senate, the new combination could accelerate a historic shift toward conservatism in the nation's capital...