Word: shifts
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...shift in rhetoric on this subject matches the rightward migration of the Republican Party on major questions of policy over the past few years. The reasons for this, while including the rightward movement of political culture and the ascendancy of conservatives into Congressional leadership, also include an often overlooked explanation: Bill Clinton. One of the most telling political cartoons of the past four years was a drawing of eight figures arrayed on the political spectrum. On the far left was Jesse Jackson and next to him, moving rightward, was Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill...
...friend, mentor and role model, especially for young women. We are disturbed, however, by criticism of Judith for being a "fundraiser"--as if raising funds is somehow beneath or irrelevant to those who are serious about social change. If you are interested in changing the world, you must shift values, attitudes and resources. Judith did all three...
...spot accuses Dole of having "voted to cut the President's school antidrug efforts--by 50%" and goes on to accuse Dole of nondrug offenses, including having "joined with Newt Gingrich to cut vaccines for children." The ad, and probably others to follow, seeks to shift the battleground to Dole's whole record--wrong, in Clinton's eyes, on many popular issues--on the principle that the best defense is a good offense...
...resigned in 1966, Bundy continued to support the war. "Getting out of Vietnam is as impossible as it is undesirable," he told Johnson at a meeting of elder statesmen in late 1967. But when the elders assembled again the following March, Bundy told Johnson there had been "a significant shift" in their thinking. The meeting marked the disintegration of the cocksure knights of the cold war, and along with them America's sense of moral hegemony...
Yesterday's vote was taken in two meetings, for the day shift and the night shift, both of which lasted about one hour. The meetings were headed by Local 254's business manager, Cathy Conway...