Word: shifts
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Which meant that the 20th century blew it apart. Some indication of the shift can be had by studying the learning curve of Billy Graham. In his 1950 Boston revival, a young Graham was ebulliently specific about the world to come. Heaven, he said, was a place "as real as Los Angeles, London, Algiers or Boston." It was "1,600 miles long, 1,600 miles wide and 1,600 miles high." Once there, "we are going to sit around the fireplace and have parties, and the angels will wait on us, and we'll drive down the golden streets...
Gillette says he fields anywhere between 50 and 150 questions during one four-hour shift...
Though Arledge's move upstairs was carefully couched with paeans to continuity and the sort of praise due a network-news titan, TIME has learned that the executive shift was accompanied by considerable angst. Arledge's contract includes a clause that allows his network bosses, if they wish, to move him this June into the largely ceremonial position of chairman and to appoint a new president who would not report to Arledge. But when Robert Iger, president of ABC Inc., decided he wanted to make such a change, Arledge fought it, arguing that he was still...
Alexa Shabecoff, assistant director of the OPIA, said the post-graduation shift from private firms to public interest law is often based on financial considerations...
...construction of settlement s in east Jerusalem. Arafat gets burned every time Netanyahu lurches to the right. Each time something is promised and then pulled away, Arafat loses a little credibility." At times, Netanyahu behaves like the second spouse who resents the legacy of his sainted predecessor. "The fundamental shift that has happened here is that neither side trusts each other. You saw that in the letter a few days ago from King Hussein, where he said that he didn't know if he could do business with Netanyahu." Instead of building housing, perhaps Netanyahu should focus on doing some...