Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative evangelicals undoubtedly hurt Jimmy Carter. According to an ABC News/Harris survey, Carter won the white Baptist vote in 1976, 56% to 43%, and lost it this time, 56% to 34%. The Harris analysis indicates that the shift in the evangelical vote accounted for two-thirds of Reagan's ten-point margin over Carter. Other experts do not agree; they claim that the New Right had its main effect in state and local elections where certain targeted liberal candidates were already in serious trouble...
...officials is that the news of each incident has seemed to spawn others. In an open letter to the college community, Wesleyan President Colin Campbell said he believed the anonymous letter delivered there was one example of "resurgent racism in society at large." Chandler concurs: "Because of the current shift in the national mood, I'm assuming that some rather ugly impulses have been liberated." Says Archie Epps III, dean of undergraduates at Harvard and a black: "In such a climate, an individual who has harbored resentment is more likely to feel free to threaten minorities because, once again...
When Harvard showed signs of losing the momentum early in the third period, one Olson-Watson-Murray shift put an end to Terrier delusion as fast as you can say "Mark Fidler." All night, the trio dominated play--and then dominated the post-game scoring...
Instead, employers should pay for the system through a payroll tax. First proposed by city manager James L. Sullivan, the payroll tax would not only take some of the pressure off the cities and towns in the metropolitan area, but also shift the cost to those industries and firms that most directly benefit from...
...policewoman, a full time free-lance writer for TrueDetective and other crime slicks, Rule first met Bundy when the two worked the late-night shift together at Seatlle's Crisis Clinic, spending four hours a night answering telephone calls from people on the precipice of madness, violence, and suicide. "I can picture him today as clearly as if it were only yeaterday," she writes, "see him hunched over the phone, talking steadily, reassuringly," Bundy was considered one of the most skilled counselors, adroit at helping desperate people with their midnight psychodramas. "If, as many people believe today, Ted Bundy took...