Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next time economic expectations shift, whoever is in the White House is going to get an ugly suprise. Cuomo, Nunn, and Baker are smart enough not to avoid the lemmings' stampede toward the White House...
...third shift, Jerry Pawloski was a Harvard Co-Rookie of the Year, and has played in the U.S. Olympic Festival. And Butch Cutone, Pawloski's partner, was Ivy League Rookie of the Year three seasons...
...Shift the scene to Reykjavik. That too was a summit unlike all others. Reagan even denied that it was a summit. It was just an informal meeting of the minds, where he could exercise his charm; and it too seemed verging toward a love-in. The President was accompanied by experts with varying attitudes on arms control, men who deferred superficially to Reagan's vision of a Strategic Defense Initiative entirely benevolent, so purely defensive in nature that its secrets could be shared with the world once it was put in place. Members of his Administration nodded along, as they...
Just after the U.S. and the Soviet Union conducted major weapons tests last week, Mikhail Gorbachev announced a shift in the Kremlin's arms-control policy. The Soviet leader declared that Moscow was now ready to conclude a separate agreement with the U.S. on medium-range missiles in Europe. Said he: "We are putting our proposals on the table of negotiations with the U.S. in Geneva...
...anybody gets bored, "work" is always there to divert our attention. There's no purposeful social setting, or hidden "friendly" agenda, and so there's no pressure to build conversations. We free associate through the shift with random spurts of silliness and sarcasm--a relaxed series of laughs and banter whose only structure is our scooping dance between customers...