Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVERY now and then, of course they try to prove their activist heritage by blockading dinners or shouting down speakers. But then they shift the debate all of a sudden to freedom of speech and freedom of movement. If today's activists want to play it safe, avoid arrest and wear their ties to meetings with the Corporations, they can. But they cannot play the radical protester at the same time. Schizophrenia is unhealthy for anyone--including activists...
...deference to his volunteers above the law, Fire Chief Keith Williams has decided to permit the men to don the breathing devices over their beards. "You can't afford to get rid of good fire fighters," he says. The two Amish make up half the fire company's day shift; Miller, who owns a harness shop across the street from the station, is usually the first fireman to answer a call...
...Winter River. Charles and Delia Deetz are hosts of their premiere dinner party in the charming old Connecticut house they have just bought. The Deetzes' teenage daughter Lydia, who dresses like Carolyn Jones in The Addams Family, sulks in the corner. The conversation fizzes, then fizzles; the guests shift uneasily. Time for a little . . . Day-o! Day-ay-ay- o! Daylight come and me wan' go home! What? Delia has risen and, to the astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink of rum! Now the entire...
...early 1980s, just before real estate values in the colony took a dive. The collapse resulted in part from nervousness about the approach of 1997, when sovereignty over Hong Kong will pass from Britain to China. Wary of that transfer's consequences, Jardines decided in 1984 to shift its legal headquarters to Bermuda -- a move that stirred lingering resentment in Hong Kong...
...budget brings together major issues in American life," she says. "It reflects the priorities of a majority." For example, she says, the 1980s has seen a shift of emphasis towards a higher priority for defense...