Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three killings pointed to an ugly new shift in the enduring pattern of violence in Northern Ireland: the mostly Protestant Ulster police, or those suspected of affiliation with them, have become more prominent targets for the I.R.A. than the British troops. Since 1969, when the current wave of troubles began, 334 British soldiers have been killed, vs. 243 members of local police or militia. But lately the ratio has been changing: of 61 people to die violently so far this year, only seven were British army regulars, while 15 were locally recruited police or members of the Ulster Defense Regiment...
Despite the conservative trends threatening women's rights, women have come far enough to shift the focus of the movement to problems facing particular groups of women. Two of those groups--office workers and Black women--have encountered difficulties that they are now striving to combat, encouraged by the victories of the women's rights crusade...
...Lutheran ministers to smoke, visit nightclubs or gamble) but are as "conservative" as Roman Catholics in insisting on the importance of certain central doctrines. Yale Divinity School's George Lindbeck, who wrote the chapter on Lutherans, says this schizophrenic situation cannot last, and speculates that Lutherans will gradually shift in the direction of Roman Catholicism, which they broke with...
Darleen Bonislawski, a ranking official in the Harvard University Employees Representative Association, the union representing the custodial workers, said she was grateful no workers were laid off in the shift, but added that if workers did not like their new situation, they would file labor grievances against Harvard...
Amelia Earhart wore them while piloting her plane across the oceans. Rosie the Riveter donned them for her shift at a World War II defense plant. Generations of American children have learned to toddle in them. They have been a trendy, casual, adult costume for the past few years. Now, with acrobatic élan, jumpsuits have leaped from utilitarian to U, from convenient to chic. At pricey department stores and boutiques across the country, dressy jumpsuits are, well, jumping off the racks. They are even in vogue for evening wear. At this month's opening of the San Francisco...