Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington closely watched the power shift in Manila, partly because of the special relationship between the U.S. and the Philippines, a former colonial ward, partly because of the strategic importance of U.S. bases there, and partly because of what the White House saw as a timely confirmation of one of its most controversial foreign policies. In a meeting with journalists, President Reagan argued that the Administration's deft handling of the Philippine crisis strengthened the case for increased U.S. aid to the contra rebels, who are battling the Marxist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. Explained Secretary of State George Shultz...
Ralph: Manfully argued, my pet. But let us cast a practiced eye at the politics of orgasm. Freud thought that truly mature women always shift their focus from the clitoris to the vagina, so women who needed clitoral stimulation were made to feel like retards or perverts. The feminists just reversed that. It was a much-loved way of downgrading penis-vagina sex and upgrading masturbation. Soon provagina women had to take to the hills like guerrillas. Clitoral enforcers like Shere Hite were sent out to mop up any remaining opposition: the poor deluded women who said they had vaginal...
...look and quality of The Hitcher is not suprising. HBO, the new financial giant of moviemaking, is responsible for this creation, which resembles one of the episodes of an HBO urban legend series called The Hitchhiker. The Hitcher will no doubt shortly replace Beastmaster on HBO's skeleton shift...
...FESTIVAL OF LIFE which took place all over campus last week brought a welcome shift in focus from much of the public debate about AIDS. The festival represents the sort of constructive effort that will be crucial in dealing with what promises to be a growing problem...
...submerged it in a cup of ice water. Then, removing the section and releasing it from the clamp, he concluded, "The resilience is very much reduced when the temperature is reduced." That fact may be significant, because the booster joints that the O rings are supposed to seal shift under the enormous stresses of launch. If the rings are not resilient, ! they may not seat properly in their grooves, leaving gaps through which the hot gases can escape. Thus, Feynman asked, would the low temperature (38 degrees F) at Challenger's lift-off have increased the chance of failure...