Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Orlando Magic and play basketball on the left coast. "I am a military child," said O'Neal, son of an Army sergeant. "I'm used to relocating." The Shaq's signing capped a frenetic week that reshaped the rosters of many National Basketball Association teams and marked a radical shift in the way team owners spend money. When the music stopped, the owners had agreed to dole out more than $600 million to try to buy themselves a championship. Or defend one: the Chicago Bulls will pay Michael Jordan $30 million for his services next year...
...corners, talking about what they had seen, reflecting on their narrow escape from death. There were few tears. It was too soon for anger. Most were gripped by a paralyzing sense of sadness and resignation. Many lingered in the streets as the darkness began to fade and a fresh shift of security volunteers arrived to replace those who had worked through the night. "I don't know if it's going to keep me from coming down here," said Sultan Muhammad, who saw the explosion. "But I hope it doesn't keep other people away. The games were just starting...
...last year. In response, General Motors recently entered talks with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. to build more than 100,000 mid-size cars a year, employing Chinese workers. Other U.S. employers such as electronic giant Motorola and computer-chip manufacturer Intel have also felt compelled to shift American jobs to less productive employees in China in order to gain a relaxation of the country's trade barriers...
...offset the number of imports ? fueled by a growing demand for foreign cars, toys and games, creating the largest trade imbalance in eight years. TIME Washington correspondent Lewis Simons reports that the trend toward a vast trade disparity with China bodes poorly for the U.S. economy: "This shift from Japan to China is a warning, an alarm bell. The potential that China will be a source of cheap exports and lost American jobs far surpasses that potential from Japan." Japan's economy has increasingly matured, Simons says, and is not nearly the economic threat that China is becoming, given...
Meanwhile, on nearby American fire bases, the night shift was usually cranking up for another round of mayhem. Since Cu Chi was a "free strike" zone, local U.S. commanders didn't really feel they were doing their job if they weren't chewing up the countryside more or less nonstop. Consequently, as the sun dipped below the horizon, artillery shells would whistle down through the jungle canopy and throw up enormous red sprays of laterite-clay clods...