Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stage in his life when he'd like to make a shift to policy, and the Kennedy School and Harvard is the best place to do that.," Carnesale added
...This shift in power was not unexpected. Glimp, who will turn 70 next week, said that he had been contemplating this move since the beginning of the capital campaign, and that he and Rudenstine made the final decision last summer...
...will cause light waves coming from the star to be squeezed together, then stretched apart--making the light look first a little bit bluer than it really is, then a little bit redder, then bluer again, and so on. These subtle color changes--examples of the so-called Doppler shift--can be precisely measured, and the magnitude of the wobble pinned down, with a device called a spectrometer...
Some of those students also object to the elimination of Bovet's position, saying the move signals a shift away from Radcliffe's original undergraduate focus...
...Shift the focus from incomes to consumption, though--pick just about any measure of the good life--and the picture changes beyond recognition. Housing? Between 1970 and 1994 the average new home grew by the equivalent of two 15-ft. by 20-ft. rooms, and 79% of new houses in 1994 were built with central air conditioning, vs. 34% in 1970. Appliances? Color-TV sets were blinking in more than 96% of all households in 1990, vs. less than 34% two decades earlier. More refined aesthetic pleasures? Almost 44 million people attended symphonic and other orchestral concerts in 1990, against...