Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the K-School still boasts many of the big-name scholars in international relations, the focus of the school's programs has shifted to include the less-glamorous fields of state and local government policy. With the announcement of a $15 million grant for the creation of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, that shift has been firmly cemented into the Kennedy School's curriculum...
Since the introduction of VDTs in the 1960s, there have been worker complaints of eyestrain, headaches, stiff necks and sore wrists. A California city worker says that after entering data into a VDT for six months, seven hours a shift, she developed migraines, temporary blindness and shoulder pains. "A lot of people don't take it seriously," she contends. "They think it's a lot of hypochondriac women complaining all the time. Those are people who don't work with computers all day." Researchers believe that some of the visual problems stem from too much glare on the screen, which...
Defense Week quoted sources as attributing the shift that favored Unisys to Paisley's close association with William Galvin, a consultant to the company. The publication quoted several sources as saying that Galvin had boasted about having "wired" the Aegis competition in Sperry's favor...
...short term: verification costs money, and so will additional weapons systems required to replace those being scrapped. But Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who is trying to pep up a stagnating economy, seems to be casting about for a way to cut Soviet military spending. He has talked about a shift in the U.S.S.R.'s military doctrine from offense to defense. That implies restructuring the Soviet armed forces, making them adequate to defend the U.S.S.R. but not to launch an offensive...
...been political in high school, nor in my freshman year. In the fall of '60 I was initiated into Tocsin. There was a real tidal shift in that fall. I had a group of about seven or eight friends and none were interested in politics...