Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King called Gramm-Rudman "taxation without representation," adding that the automatic budget cuts the act mandates would shift power from Congress and the judiciary to the executive branch of the Federal government. He also said the bill would cut social programs, including student aid, to dangerously low levels while protecting excessive military spending...
Harvard's third line suffered a debilitating blow in the Yale contest, when forward Julie Trotman broke her leg on her first shift of the game. Trotman, who scored her first career goal in the BU rout, was showing definite signs of improvement while fighting her way back from an earlier ankle fracture...
Once again, a stunning shift in the price of oil sent tremors around the globe. Yet unlike the jolts that staggered the world economy in the 1970s, last week's quake caused prices to crash rather than climb. On Tuesday oil dropped below $20 per bbl. for the first time in seven years. Said Charles Maxwell, an analyst with the Cyrus J. Lawrence brokerage house near Wall Street: "This is one of the most important days in the oil markets in a decade." Since November, the price of petroleum contracts has plunged about 40%, including an 18% drop last week...
...great because we won 11-3," Barakett says. "But I didn't have to do much, just stand in front of the net and bang home rebounds. I think there's an emphasis too much on points. My best games are those where I work hard on every shift and do all the little things. Not scoring necessarily, but making good passes and hustling...
...School administrators and students are using a number of tactics to draw students away from high-paying private sector jobs, but they do not appear to have succeeded in creating a large-scale shift to the public sector...