Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unemployment is going. In talks to Governors, state legislators and county executives, Reagan began urging a futuristic program to transfer all administration and funding of entire categories of Government programs, such as education and welfare, from Washington to states and localities - an idea that would involve a revolutionary shift in domestic political power...
...burning with the fever, now find themselves trying to balance their budgets, keep from raising taxes, and avoid cutting back on services - all at the same time. Even where there have not been moves to limit taxes, the Reagan Administration's plans to cut the federal budget will shift all sorts of unexpected spending burdens to the states. Indeed, the early 1980s are shaping up as a difficult time to be a Governor...
...warm Gallic welcome ended several years of frostiness between Paris and Cairo and demonstrated a recent shift in the French diplomatic posture with regard to the Middle East. Giscard has been burned by Libya, whose Colonel Muammar Gaddafi recently made a power grab in the former French African colony of Chad. As a result, he has been discreetly backing away from his formerly enthusiastic support for radical Arab regimes...
...perennially troublesome and potentially explosive Middle East, the focus of U.S. diplomacy should shift to Jordan...
Penn captain Ken Hall took care of the apparent shift in momentum, though, by taking the inbound pass and driving the length of the floor to sink a down-the-middle lay-up at buzzer. "That hurt," Mannix said wistfully after the game. "If he hadn't hit that and we had hit the first half of the second half we would have been down...