Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Agreeing with Vogel, Dwight H. Perkins, professor of Modern Chinese Studies and Economics, said yesterday that China's policy is a "continuation of a process which began in the middle of 1979 when China felt it had overreached itself" in earlier programs. Perkins said that the shift from heavy industry to consumer goods has been underway since the goals of the Cultural Revolution were "fundamentally abandoned...
Mitchell, a former chairman of the House Black Caucus, referred to President Reagan's programs to lessen the role of government as a shift as major as the revolution of 1776, the Civil War and the New Deal. He also decried what he said was increasing racism around the country and in Congress, criticizing attacks on affirmative action...
There are moments in the affairs of nations that historians, with the snug granny glasses of hindsight, adjudge climactic: the end of one era, the beginning of another, a true shift of the tectonic plates of society. Often such events largely escape the notice of those living at the time; significance dawns slowly, meaning comes piecemeal. Whether or not what Ronald Reagan asked of the U.S. last week in his televised address to the assembled houses of Congress will some day be considered such a moment remains to be seen. But no one who heard him will be able...
...genuinely need loans to meet college costs. In addition, interest payments may no longer be deferred. Funding for Pell grants, which are direct scholarships to needy students, will also be reduced.Says John Phillips, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities: "The effect will be an overwhelming shift to cheaper, public-supported colleges." State college administrators agree; they fear that this influx will place a new strain on state and local taxpayers. In Reagan's budget message, the Administration countered that benefits "have become excessive," and "could be recklessly expanded over the next few years without reforms...
James Andrews, 19, the son of a Maine logger, taught swimming at the lake near his home in tiny West Paris for eight hours a day last summer, then put in a six-hour shift at a local restaurant. All that work was to help in what he calls his greatest achievement: being the first member of his family to go to college. Industrious and frugal, Andrews was impressed by Reagan's attack on federal profligacy and voted for him last fall. Now, however, Reagan has threatened Andrews' dream by proposing to slash $800 million from the student...