Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...First-Year Caucus of the Undergraduate Council has proposed a shift in Annenberg Hall's dinner hours...
...message to a meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which had taken the origin of life as its theme, John Paul described the shift in the church's view of evolution that has taken place since Pope Pius XII issued his encyclical Humani Generis in 1950. "Humani Generis," John Paul wrote, "considered the doctrine of 'evolutionism' as a serious hypothesis, worthy of a more deeply studied investigation...Today...new knowledge leads us to recognize that the theory of evolution is more than a hypothesis." Pius was skeptical of evolution but tolerated study and discussion of it; the statement...
Moran, the current Kansas Senate majority leader, boasts that he has never missed a floor vote in eight years. He vows to be a vocal protector of agriculture and small business, and says he wants to shift power back to the states and fight income-tax increases. A favorite to take over for Senate hopeful Pat Roberts, Moran has logged more than 8,000 miles a month to deliver his message in all 66 counties of the "Big First," a district that comprises more than two-thirds of Kansas...
...heavily industrialized Second District, DeJuliis' connection with the working class--like her mother before her, she worked the midnight shift at the Western Electric steel mill--poses a serious challenge to Robert Ehrlich's incumbency. She supports government benefits for the elderly and government guaranteed loans for students. But her success may depend on how effectively she can stick a Gingrich pin to Ehrlich...
...liberals left on the Hill, Becerra hit the ground running as a Congressman. He was appointed to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims and has pushed for a shift in federal funding for poor children that could move $59 million into his mostly Latino South Central district...