Word: shiftings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
President Carter's poor record led to Ronald Reagan's victory last week, panelists at the Kennedy School Forum said last night, disagreeing about the degree to which an ideological shift to the right also sparked the president-elect's landslide...
Somewhere here there is a message--the nation's syndicated psychoanalysts quickly diagnosed a shift to the Right. Cogent, even obvious, but incomplete. The 1980 election either represents widespread dissatisfaction with Jimmy Carter (the majority op-ed view) or a near-total realignment of American politics, a conclusion more dour but also more plausible...
...RECOMMENDATIONS in the recently released study of minority and women Faculty represent a major departure from current hiring policies? Administrators and Faculty members seem unsure. If, as some suggest, the proposals do not portend a shift in Harvard's affirmative action practices, then the study will prove worthless...
...what the Faculty now needs in order to increase the numbers of minorities and women in its ranks is a major departure from its current, failed affirmative action stance--a shift in posture that will prevent departments from easily discarding such minority and women scholars as Theda R. Skocpol, associate professor of Sociology, Thomas C. Holt, associate professor of Sociology, Thomas C. Holt, associate professor of Afro-American Studies and of History, Molly Nolan, assistant professor of History, Mangol Bayat, assistant professor of History, and Selwyn R. Cudjoe, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, to name several examples from recent...
...American automakers, Ford was least prepared for the sudden shift in consumer demand to small, fuel-sipping cars. It will take another two years before the company has a sufficient lineup of front-wheel-drive autos to compete with General Motors, Chrysler and foreign imports. The company was also hit last week by the second lowering in its long-term debt rating this year; Standard & Poor's gave Ford's corporate bonds a simple A, rather than AA, rating. The change will make it much more expensive for the company to borrow the money needed to retool plants...