Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNFORTUNATELY, Summers and the others who run Ms. have used the magazine's commercialization as an excuse to shift its coverage--in the wrong direction...
...share returning to individuals in the form of transfer payments (Social Security and so on) has gone up. The Government borrows the difference, thus replacing national savings with consumption. The 1980s' consumption boom, Friedman notes, has been financed in three ways: by this shift in the Government budget; by a larger share of the population in the work force (owing to the maturing of the baby boomers and women going to work, two social trends that have just about reached their limit); and by lower investment for future growth. Meanwhile, when foreigners lend us the difference between our anemic investment...
...voters have made up their mind on heartfelt issues, they are unlikely to shift away from the candidate that takes their side, no matter how much more eloquently the opposition is presented...
Late Wednesday night, Air Force weather spokesman Mike Beeman estimated there was a 90 percent chance the weather would permit a launch today. But he said winds that were currently 10 knots out of the north were expected to shift to eastnortheast by morning, which would blow across the landing runway. Launch criteria allows no more than a 12-knot crosswind, in case the orbiter must return for an emergency landing...
...often in the past, presidential candidates have tried to sway voters by proclaiming their support for education and then have failed to provide any leadership on such important issues as accelerating tuitions, the middle class squeeze, and the disturbing shift from grants to loans by the federal government during the last seven years. Though the final details of the STARS program still have to be fully worked out, the concept is a sound one: that access to a college education should not be determined by one's financial status...