Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days after seniors receive their diplomas in Tercentenary Theater and evacuate campus, SASC members quietly dismantle their Ivory Tower and seven make-shift structures...
...union counterproposal that would extend each patrolman's shift by half an hour and thereby make up roughly 15 of the 17 lost days in hours was termed inadequate by the University because the need for extra manpower is not currently an issue, said Powers, the University's frontline union negotiator...
...paying jobs. But black incomes have been rising: according to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, black men earned 42% as much as white men in 1940; by 1980 the figure was up to 69%. The rise is due partly to narrowing differences in education and to a shift in black employment from farming to industry and government. Decreasing discrimination may be another factor, though the rate of black economic progress was as great during the 20 years before 1960 as afterward...
Each of America's successive wars on drugs has brought a shift of tactical emphasis and new sets of priorities for deploying resources. Richard Nixon, for example, targeted sites abroad, putting pressure on foreign countries like Turkey and Mexico to stop cultivating the seeds of poison. The new emphasis is on the war within. President Reagan is urging that employees take urine tests and that educational programs be initiated to discourage demand. Cities like New York, Boston and Miami are launching highly visible law-enforcement efforts. Here is a look at the prospects and difficulties faced on five different fronts...
...what could be a serious blow to the Hunt clan, the craggy-faced Barefoot Sanders ruled that Placid must shift its petition for bankruptcy relief from a New Orleans court to Dallas. The banks wanted the case to be heard in Dallas, in Sanders' jurisdiction, but the Hunts hoped to avoid the judge. Sanders, a liberal Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate, has never been friendly with the conservative Republican Hunts. The Hunts may fear that having Sanders on the case could hurt their chances of holding on to what is left of their dwindling assets, which have...