Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Jimmy Carter first trumpeted his registration plan last winter, he warned of an increasingly aggressive Soviet war machine and a disorganized all-volunteer American counterpart, one incapable of responding efficiently to the Communist threat. Despite this frightening description and the public's gradual shift toward a more bellicose outlook as problems in the Near East continued to smolder, no one was certain that America's youth would cooperate with Carter. The SSS announced its version of the outcome last week: more than 93 per cent of the nearly four million eligible men had registered, and more were expected...
...someone other than Jimmy Carter were sitting in the Oval Office next year. Ronald Reagan and John Anderson have declared strong opposition to peace-time registration. The determined pro-and anti-registration warriors realize that in the space of a few months the entire framework of their confrontation may shift drastically, but they march on, certain that they are each serving the nation and that they will prevail over the opposition...
Some of the new Peking vocabulary sounds unexpected--a national income tax, and incredible stress on incentive--but China's new course is not the "sudden shift" that some have labeled it. Faintly tinged with ideas tried after the great failure of the Great Leap Forward, it is more the culmination of post-Gang of Four policies than a clean, radical break with the past. More than anything, in fact, it is a symbol of Deng's new muscle--finally, he feels, he is powerful enough to do what he has always wanted...
...proctors, Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, says last year's recruiting efforts produced 13 new minority proctors. "That's a very impressive number. We have a total of 14 minorities among 66 or 67 proctors." Last year they had three. Moses asserts that this is no shift from their original policy: "We've always been interested in a solid number of minority proctors. I realized the inadequate number without the race relation committee's study. That's why last year's minority proctor recruiting was more vigorous...
They no longer sing the company song before each work shift at Toyota and other Japanese auto plants, but the workers do have 5 to 10 min. of calisthenics and get a briefing on the day's work schedule before plunging spiritedly into their jobs. Japanese autoworkers are imbued with a sense of mission, a sense that doing a good job is important to them, to their union, to their families and to their nation. Worker alienation is almost unheard of, and sabotage is unknown. Coke bottles do not rattle in the doors of Toyotas as they sometimes...