Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change became necessary when Philip Morris bought General Foods. Philip Morris was a suitable replacement for General Foods, but then American Brands had to be dropped to avoid having two cigarette makers among the 30. The Journal editors also wanted to shift the index away from smokestack industries, which are overrepresented in the elite group. McDonald's provided a golden opportunity and reflected the continuing growth of the service sector in the economy...
...talking about affirmative action. To appeal to the mythical yuppie, they have stopped being "soft on defense." The solution seems to be: To regain majority status, move right. Out-right the right with morality/family rhetoric. But is it possible to out Republican the Republicans? Won't the Democrats simply shift the political spectrum rightward and come out looking just as far left, wimpy, and soft--a pale shadow of the cowboy--booted New Right...
Although incumbent Alfred E. Vellucci has held the swing-vote for the past few years, observers say the shift of a single seat could significantly alter city policies, particularly regarding the much-debated issue of rent control...
...worked the midnight shift, driving aimlessly up and down Main Street, Commercial Street, Route Six and the countless back roads of the small community, hoping to avoid showdowns, weighing his responsibility to enforce the law against his fear of confrontation and his unpreparedness. (No one ever showed him how to fire his revolver...
Williams, like many civil libertarians, is afraid that the general increase in testing means "a slow, insidious dissolution of people's freedom." Surprisingly, however, the shift in recent years has provoked little outcry. "People are more concerned with protecting their children and themselves than with intangible rights of privacy and civil liberties," says Harvard Law Professor Arthur Miller. In the present atmosphere, the fear of what is lost with too much testing is evidently less than the fear of what is risked by too little...