Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fellows will have "uninterrupted time toupdate themselves in their areas, to renewtheselves intellectually, and shift theirperspectives," said Laval Wilson, superintendentof schools in Boston...
...narrator, known only as Dick, speaks with he typical voice of a jaded, street-smart gangster from the 1930's. This is how the book begins: "When I came down off the midnight shift I saw there wasn't any light in the restaurant window, and that was how I knew Lois had left me. I knew it sure, just like I knew there'd be that note in the pillow...
There is, however, one pain every congressman understands--losing an election. If Congressional election margins were to shift radically against incumbents, those who were able to cling to their seats would get the point...
...enlisted Marine officer for every two grunts; now the ratio is 1 to 1. Less than one-third of the troops in each Marine division now have combat jobs, and the ratio of desk jobs to field jobs for lieutenant colonels is 9 to 1. Because of this shift from "tooth" to "tail," what is supposed to be a streamlined strike force resembles the rest of the military bureaucracy...
Harvard did manage to shift the momentum, scoring twice to bring the score to 7-5. But with two minutes remaining on the clock, Queens scored an advantage goal to take both the game and the tournament...